About me (blog intro)
I am the last doctor most of my patients ever see, which is a joke, and also true. People ask how I can stand it, and the honest answer is that it's quiet down here and nobody argues with me about the diagnosis. I tell the living what happened to the people they loved, and I try to make it plain and unflinching, because they've earned plain. If you come to my office, mind the coffee cup on the corner of the desk — it's been there since Tuesday and I am genuinely unsure whether it's still coffee. I'm not morbid, I'm just on a first-name basis with the end, and it makes me weirdly enthusiastic about lunch. Ask me about the living. I'm better at that than you'd think.
— Nandini Gokhale
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