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Wait a few months to a year. It usually goes away.
Okay, I was wrong to be so vague somewhere where I'm anonymous enough.
My father-in-law is a retired General Practitioner (approximately), but people keep coming to him for help now and again. Recently he was asked to resuscitate a child, but his efforts were too late. The parents drove to our house in the evening, when we were putting our kid to bed, and he (the kid) became quite excited with having unfamiliar people bursting in and asking for help.
I told him he has to behave and not interrupt his grandfather's work, and we went to read a book. My mother-i... (read more)