KevinMD November 20, 2025
Early in the pandemic, we began using yellow cloth isolation gowns, environmentally superior, perhaps, to the paper gowns that preceded them, but not without complications. The strings at the neck were invariably tied and tightly knotted after going through the wash. If you’re a smallish doctor or nurse, the pre-tied neckline hung down around the tip of the xiphoid. I stood outside my patients’ rooms on long, weary days and picked at those knots with my fingernails, growing increasingly exasperated and thinking, this is the last knot! Tomorrow I retire!
I did retire, but not for another five years. It turned out it was complicated, in the end, to find the right time. After practicing medicine in a variety of...
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