I too have drifted; it is right before me now, I cannot deny it. A 14-year career of rounding, teaching, and publishing has not the longevity you had at your "retirement," but it feels like it's become an increasingly wearying few years. Concerns of coding, billing, documenting, administration, computers, surveys, rules, regulations, and politics have increasingly occupied my mind and space like an intracranial tumor, slowly compressing my right hand drawer while pushing it to the side. I must take credit as well for its diminishment, for it is my hand, not another's, that has opened it less and less over time with its unreplenished files of aging articles, clippings, notes, and musings.
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