On one hand he sees the population getting older and older, with the incidence of heart disease doubling every decade after age 40 and nearly six million people a year admitted for congestive heart failure. Sometimes I see them too late. At the same time he takes instruction from his son. He is real sensitive at a very early age and you can see the hurt of me not being around. I've learned a lot by watching Nicholas.
Kids are literal, very clear in their thinking, and absorb like a sponge.
They are not encumbered by a lot of the pressures and emotions we have as adults. You see a lot of that pureness in their thinking. Some of the things they say give you revelations too. Today, both lives continue to co-exist. In the one there is the super-subspecialist greeting the helicopter as it transports a patient gasping for life and hoping for a transplant.