Perched on her living room couch, cup of tea in hand, Krista Bose rattles off complex medical terms without the slightest hesitation, then pauses to patiently explain each one in layman’s terms as if speaking to her own patient. Bose, though, is the patient, and what she’s describing is her own prognosis.Perched on her living room couch, cup of tea in hand, Krista Bose rattles off complex medical terms without the slightest hesitation, then pauses to patiently explain each one in layman’s terms as if speaking to her own patient. Bose, though, is the patient, and what she’s describing is her own prognosis.