Potential and devotion

摘要

The student perspective: Potential This is only my third patient encounter, and my patient is paralyzed following a traumatic brain injury. As I walk into the room, I see his mother, dressed in jeans and a pressed white blouse, not a hair out of place in her highlighted bob. In her lap she holds a beige folder full of papers-physicians' referrals, test results. My attention shifts to him, a young man in his early 20s wearing beige cargo shorts and a striped green pullover.