His father’s tears persuaded him. Francisco Lopera, then in his first yr of medical coaching, had gone with him to see his grandmother in Medellín. His father had not needed him to check drugs; he thought he was not clever sufficient. However that was not why he wept. He wept as a result of the previous woman, within the final phases of Alzheimer’s, stared blankly at them, not understanding who they have been. Then and there, Francisco made a vow: when he grew to become a physician, that was not going to occur to any granny.
