“So you smoke and drink, correct?” I asked.
The patient was a 71-year-old man with a bit of shine still left in his bright blue eyes. He gazed at me with slight indignation.
“I overdo the bottle,” he conceded. He said he drank 10 to 12 beers and smoked a pack and a half of unfiltered cigarettes a day.
“You live by yourself?”
“Yeah, except I sometimes have lady visitors over.”
