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“I see you remembered to bring the office forms I mailed you.” “Yes, but I need to fill them out,”  he replies. I hand him a pen and clipboard, thinking “you had over a week to fill them out at home.” Fifteen minutes later, I smile as he hands me the filled-in forms.

“I see you remembered to bring the office forms I mailed you.”

“Yes, but I need to fill them out,”  he replies.

I hand him a pen and clipboard, thinking “you had over a week to fill them out at home.”

Fifteen minutes later, I smile as he hands me the filled-in forms.

Dr. Ramona Bates is a plastic surgeon in Little Rock, Arkansas, who writes regularly at Suture for a Living.

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