A Waiting Room Conversation
Waiting for someone to recover from anesthesia can provide an unexpected opportunity for conversations that never would've been. The woman, with the slight accent, sitting next to me looked over at me and then at the TV screen which was promoting some type of new medication. "Can you imagine," she said, "that in Europe we have remedies for things such as this and they won't use them here in the United States?" A bit more of conversation revealed that the woman had an enormo