Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings



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Introduction
Tony was having a client seminar in San Francisco and asked Father to 
come deliver a dinner speech. Father left his San Mateo office in the late 
afternoon to walk to the train station to ride to the city, where he could 
catch a taxi downtown to Tony’s event.Tony would drive him home that 
night. The walk was wet from the afternoon’s light drizzle. As Father 
passed through downtown San Mateo, he saw the next stop light start-
ing to shift from green to yellow and he ran to beat it, something he had 
done all his life. As he ran off the near curb, he slipped and fell, break-
ing his right hip cleanly. The recovery went reasonably well, but from
moment one of that trauma, dementia flooded through the oppor- 
tunity like a dam breaking. 
As Father’s body recovered, his memory and logic did less so. I 
was running his health care program and feeling pretty darned good 
about how well he was improving. But as so often happens with a hip 
break in the elderly, on January 15, 1999, he contracted pneumonia, 
which hit him hard and almost killed him. By January 19, he was 
in intensive care, and we were told to expect his death by morning. 
Mother was very upset. Arthur flew down from Seattle and sat the 
night with him. By 3 
, the tough old coot was pulling through, 
coming out of the coma and reacting initially to pin pricks to his 
toes. By 5 
, Arthur had me back down there. By 8, I was calling 
mother, who was already grieving his death, telling her to get back 
down to meet me because she could once again talk with her hus-
band, who was conscious and clear-eyed, even if he was still on a res-
pirator. I assembled an around-the-clock ded-icated team of nurses 
and injected them into the hospital with my own doctor’s oversight 
to supervise Father as he came out of intensive care. Hospitals do the 
best they can with elderly patients, but their care for people in that 
condition is really totally inadequate; and there isn’t much they can do 
about it because of how they function. And the family was clear that 
we were going to do better. This particular hospital had never before 
actually had anyone bring in a dedicated outside crew, but they were 
very good to me as I put it in place, allowing us much more free-
dom than I expected or deserved. It turned out that father needed it.
He was nip and tuck with death twice more before finally pull-
ing through, including requiring on very short notice an emergency 
proce-dure that drained a quart and a half of fluid from his lung 
by needle injunction and vacuum removal. The fluid had filled his 
lungs almost instantly.Without our dedicated crew to catch it fast, he 



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