In Memoriam
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed Tennyson This line from Tennyson's In Memoriam, A.H.H. is in reference to evolution. And the Doctor's Lounge has met the ultimate evolutionary fate: insignificance. The demise of Doctor's Lounge to my surprise has been chronicled elsewhere. These postmortems are adequate enough and I couldn't expound much (http://bit.ly/2oqKSi9, http://theatln.tc/2CjOifs). There's even a book: In those early hospitals, the Valetudinaria for example, places where the Romans housed wounded soldiers, I am certain there was cold coffee at 2PM, stuffy leather chairs, the WSJ, and if not March Madness on TV, there was someone hopefully watching the stock ticker mindlessly. Gone now are curbside consults, a place in the corner where one could catch a nap, morning fruit and bagels. But what happened? These former bastions of (mostly...
