"Wow, You're Tall"

If I had ten bucks for every time someone said that or a variation to me at St. Luke's Roosevelt or Mt. Sinai, I'd come close to paying Dr. F's bill. Hey, I'm 6'3", above average yes, but it's not like I'm Manute Bol or Yao Ming. I don't even stand out in the subway. Maybe everybody who goes to the hospital is 5'9" or less. I learned this -- each time you become less critical, the beds get more uncomfortable. My last one at SLR was the one Lincoln died in (somebody actually believed this when I said it to them face to face) -- it was clean, but straight out of the 50's.