“What’s hurting you most today?” he asked Nancy Scoblic, 79. “Let me take out my list,” she said. I’ve got a spot on my leg and pain in my shoulder. It was behind the closed door of Dr. Bob’s exam room where hundreds of people filled out their advance directives, took cognitive evaluations and tested out their new walkers and hearing aids. It was Dr. Bob who delivered bad news with a farmer’s directness and then sat with families around a hospice bed for hours when the only thing left to do was to pray.

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