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"Ramonita Ortega," I called out to the crowded waiting room. A slim, 50-ish woman with crisply trimmed gray hair followed me into my office.

"They told me to give you this," she said, smiling and shrugging, as she pushed an envelope across the desk toward me.

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I've always been intrigued by who "they" are — those mystery people referred to with such assumed authority and universality. Particularly in a large city hospital, in which the staff is mammoth and constantly changing, "they" constitute a particularly encompassing force.

I glanced at her chart before opening the envelope. Ms. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Ofri is an assistant professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine and editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review.

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