Why Won't My Patient Act Like a Jerk?
I'm avoiding Mr. G's room. I shouldn't have read the emergency room notes from the other hospital, where this middle‐aged man raised a stink about the wait. What type of person calls the triage nurse a bitch? From the timestamps on the electronic medical record notes, he stormed from that ER and dro...
| Publicado en: | Hastings Center Report Vol. 49; no. 6; pp. 4 - 6 |
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