The Gold-Hope Tang, MD 2016 Humanism in Medicine Essay Contest: Second Place: The Power of Walking.

Abstract

I met Mr. C on a Friday morning on the inpatient ward. He’d been transferred from the ICU overnight after battling sepsis for two weeks.He was thin like a bird, folded up in the hospital bed. His eyes were sunken but bright. “I have multiple myeloma, cancer of the bones,” he told me. His chart said