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Doctor’s Waiting Room Causes Blood Pressure Rate to Spike

A patient records the pain and anxiety caused by TVs in waiting rooms

Walter Bowne
The Haven
Published in
7 min readSep 10, 2021

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I was ten minutes early for Dr. Tarot’s monthly visit — mostly to check my blood pressure, monitor all sorts of anxiety and depression meds, due to Covid-19 and Trump — and my…

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Walter Bowne
The Haven

This “trophy husband” writes fiction, poetry, narrative non-fiction, travel essays, music essays, book reviews, and essays about his belly button.