![]() ![]() 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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