Geriatric fellowship training programs at even the most prestigious institutions are sometimes unable to find willing candidates.
I call his career decision unusual because gerontology remains among the least popular fields of practice for medical students to enter. He begins the book by explaining why he made the unusual choice to specialize in care for the elderly. The author, David Dosa, is a geriatrician at the Steere House Nursing Center in Rhode Island where Oscar lives. Now, years later, a book entitled Making Rounds with Oscar chronicles a doctor's discovery of the animal's special gift. The story generated a good deal of interest, earning the feline 15 minutes of fame.
The furry creature's presence at a person's bedside invariably signaled that life's end was near. Living as a pet in a nursing home dementia unit, Oscar demonstrated an uncanny ability to predict which of its residents were about to die. Too bad, though, this book just lingers with what it could have been.In a 2007 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, amid the usual fare of the latest and greatest in biomedical research, there appeared a short piece about a cat named Oscar ( 1). Dosa's eventual appreciation for this curious cat.
Though he was skeptical regarding Oscar's supposed gift, it was cheering to hear of Dr. As a medical doctor, the author clearly states that he's no animal behaviorist he doesn't have pets and never seemed to have much interest in them. Dosa states himself near the tail end of the book, "Though my interviews with with decedents' families were meant to provide me with more insight into what Oscar does, I found myself learning a great deal more about the diseases that had destroyed my patients' lives than I did about the cat." That's to be expected, I suppose, as cats can be mysterious creatures, but I don't know, if you're going to write a book about a death-sensing cat and the comfort and companionship he provides, is it too much to expect a more thorough exploration of such? Aside from a mention of the breakdown of cells emitting sweet-smelling ketones that perhaps some animals can be tuned into, there really no further queries, posturings, or anecdotal offerings of other animals' keen perceptions to offer why or how Oscar the cat may be able to sense death.
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