Robert Patrick, a Doig fan and end-of-life-physician, writes of what he found in the famous author’s journals
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Robert Patrick MD MBA is a hospitalist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He came to the West in 1997 for residency at the University of Utah and stayed in Salt Lake City until returning home in 2005 to work at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Patrick transitioned to the Cleveland VA Medical Center in 2011 to complete a fellowship in quality improvement and patient safety and stayed on at the VA to divide his time between caring for hospitalized veterans and disseminating innovative clinical solutions across the VA system. He has a special interest in end of life issues and supervises an ongoing project to encourage doctors to have earlier and more frequent goals of care conversations with terminally ill patients.