“What have you heard from doctors about your lungs?” I asked.
She confessed she had never understood. “I can’t read or write,” she said, looking at her clubbed fingers.
“Your lungs are very sick,” I said.
“Please tell my kids. Don’t let me die on a machine,” she begged me.
Medical Literacy, Literature by Kencee Graves, MD
Kencee Graves, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Kencee is a first-generation college graduate who wanted to be a writer growing up. Instead, she is a physician, a leader, and a mother. She completed medical school and internal medicine residency here at the University of Utah, and after working as faculty for 4 years, went back and completed a palliative medicine fellowship. This patient is
one of the reasons why.
Voices from the Faculty:
2020, "Medical Literacy"
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