![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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). ![]()
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