Accustomed to the busy thrum of the internal medicine clinic at Boston Medical Center, Lucy Schulson, MD, MPH finds it difficult to adjust to working in the eerie quiet of her house. She misses her colleagues and her patients, but she has a constant reminder she...
Lucy Schulson, MD, MPH, speaks slowly and carefully into the receiver, then waits. A translator begins speaking in Arabic. Another long pause. Then finally, she hears her patient’s muffled acknowledgment. The call ends. Schulson wonders if her patient understood. In...