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July 27, 2007

Oscar the Cat

At Rhode Island nursing home, death comes purring

A two-year-old cat has become a telltale sign of death at a Rhode Island nursing home, curling up beside dying patients in their final few hours, says a touching essay in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. David Dosa, a geriatrician at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, detailed the phenomenon Thursday in a brief essay titled "A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat."

Posted by joke du jour at July 27, 2007 07:30 PM

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