WHEN YOU VISIT THE SICK.
Don’t enter the rcom on tiptoe, and speak in lower voice, as if at a deathbed. Don’t insist "n explaining how very much worse you were when you were ill than your friends can possibly be. Don’t give sympathy unless you are asked for it. Don’t tell the invalid how many people her doctor has killed. Don’t criticise the arrangements of the sick-room unless you have something practical to suggest. Don’t tell her what a lot she is missing by being in bed. Don’t recommend her a quack medicine which may clash with the doctor’s prescription. Don’t recall all the stories you know of people who had that particular illness, and were never well again. Do take her something unusual and amusing for her room, instead of the usual flowers. Do give her something pleasant to think about. Do convey dozens of messages to her, whether yuo really have them or not. Do watch for the first sign cf fatigue, and go quickly when you see it.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 287, 9 May 1929, Page 1
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