TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Lessons in communication A1 - Murtagh AO, John A1 - Bird, Sara PY - 2019 T2 - Murtagh's Cautionary Tales, 3rd Edition AB - I met Evelyn, a 43-year-old obstetric patient, when I was a medical student. Two of us were asked to conduct a full history and examination with the perennial student attraction being ‘an interesting patient with a hole in the heart’. She was great and talked about the straightforward birth of her seventh child and how well her heart continued to cope. Of course we examined her cardiovascular system and assessed her condition as an atrial septal defect. When asked about how her husband felt about having yet another child she replied that she wasn’t married but that Terry was the father of all her children. She could sense that we looked bemused and added, ‘When I was very young my doctor said that with your heart you should not get married—and I have followed his advice to this day.’ SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education (Australia) Pty Ltd CY - Sydney, Australia Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - murtagh.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1163950371 ER -