David Elkin
speaker
521 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2021
last heard Nov 2021
David Elkin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then Karen starts off a little bit too briskly and a little bit too brightly and says, Hi, we're from psychiatry.
Your team sent us because we heard you were suicidal.
Oh well.
So the patient doesn't seem fazed by this at all.
He takes some stride and he says, Yeah, I was feeling that way.
But then this morning I was able to move my leg.
He takes the blanket off his legs, and I notice with a clinician's eye that his legs are lean, muscular, tann from the summer sun.
That makes me think about how his muscles are going to wither over the coming weeks and months as they're deprived of any kind of nerve input.
I staunched the thought.
It's a strange scene.
The three of us stare at his leg for about thirty seconds, and finally there's this tiny twitch on the inside of his left thigh.
And he looks at us very brightly and he says, See?
Karen and I make eye contact and this is as close to telepathy as you're going to have.
Karen and I've worked together for over two months and we're similar enough.
We can almost read each other's thoughts at times.
And I can tell what she's thinking.
If we were to step into the hallway, she would say
Acute stress disorder, denial.
I mean, he's probably never gonna walk again.
So she resumes the questioning.
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