The Prescription That Never Left the Counter

Every morning, the slip of paper sat next to the coffee maker. Dr. Sarah Chen at the Cleveland Clinic had written it out carefully — a blood pressure medication, precise dosage, clear instructions. Her patient, a fifty-three-year-old electrician named Dan, had read it thoroughly. He researched the drug online, understood how it worked to relax arterial walls, even explained the mechanism to his wife over dinner.…