The Least We Can Do

If you use the letters “TLC” in an emergency department, your colleagues may assume that you’re referring to total lung capacity or the thin-layer chromatography results of a toxicology test, or perhaps The Learning Channel on cable television. In New York City, where taxicab seat-divider injuries are not uncommon, they may even think you mean the Taxi and Limousine Commission. Much lower on the differential would be the words “tender loving care.”