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In my earlier years, I had difficulty reading my patients, and sometimes pushed them beyond their level of tolerance.
After laboriously completing simple phrases like "Drive a .." for about 15 minutes, my aphasic patient had had enough.
His reply to my cue "Shut the." was "hell up!"
I did.
Mary Anderson is a speech-language pathologist at Cloud County Health Center in Concordia, KS.
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