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It was Friday the 13th! They had taken my glasses, and everything was a blur. There was no pain, but I knew that if I stood up it would start, so I lay on the stretcher outside the operating room. The nurse wrapped my cold feet in a heated blanket. In a few minutes I was going to have an operation.
Dr. Stephen Sullivan is a 39-year-old gastroenterologist. He lives with his wife and two children in London, Ontario, and works and teaches at Victoria Hospital. For more than two decades, running has been part of his daily life—a form of transportation and a means of dissipating mental stress.
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Sullivan, S.N. (1988). Disc with L-5 Root Compression. In: Mandell, H., Spiro, H. (eds) When Doctors Get Sick. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2001-0_13
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