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A patient's rich life and a heavy secret

Nurse talking to a patient. (Courtesy/iStock)

As I walk up and down the hospital corridors attending to the sick, I get to be friends with the pulse of the hospital; nurses. Their stories of hilarity, hope, faith, despair, death or healing give me incredible insights into the human spirit.

They tell the tale of a patient, who walked into the hospital for tests to get to the bottom of why he was getting dizzy; he just couldn't shake off a lethargy that had snuck up on his otherwise robust life.

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