His cellphone rang, and Lenny Dykstra sprang from his seat like an outfielder in pursuit of a deep fly ball. While mumbling in profane little bursts, he dropped a second phone onto a picnic table, slapped shut the lid on a laptop that was playing a video of a New Age philosopher he admires, removed the baseball cap he had bought at Target, ran a palm through his now-gray hair, and began parading rapidly through the side yard of the Merion physician who helped him kick an opiate addiction.
“Sometimes,” Jim Berman said as he watched his longtime friend and patient, “even when you’re no longer using the drugs, you still illustrate the same behaviors that make people think you are.