Article by:
Katie Roiphe
In an ambulance on the way to the emergency room, the EMTs are concerned that my 88-year-old mother is having a heart attack. My mother, however, is worried about how her dog, Ajax, is feeling. I tell her that I have arranged for someone to come and pick him up, but she keeps asking, from her gurney in the overcrowded emergency room, if I think he is OK. Read the full article...