Tag: patients
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March 26, 2007 10:39 PM EDT --
Hope this doesn’t offend anyone, but if it does you can blame Ina. She encouraged me to use this title or said she would steal it.
As I have mentioned, I work as a nurse in a hospital. On a recent . . .
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August 17, 2008 06:50 PM EDT --
I don't know about you, but I get totally irate when I make a call and hear...
"PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH."
Why the hell do I have to press one for English? This is the USA and the official . . .
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February 08, 2008 11:17 AM EST --
Two days ago, I sat through a lecture on "Care of the Transgender Patient" and learned quite a bit that I wasn't aware of before. For those of you who are unfamiliar, what does transgender . . .
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April 02, 2009 01:28 PM EDT --
A former nurse has been charged with injecting 10 patients with bleach - killing five of them - at a dialysis center in Lufkin.
Kimberly Saenz has been indicted by an Angelina County grand jury on . . .
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May 28, 2009 01:38 PM EDT --
Being a caregiver for an Alzheimer’s patient is not always easy, it doesn’t matter if there is a genetic DNA test relationship making you are family member or you are nurse caring for a patient, . . .
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November 23, 2009 01:28 PM EST --
Is our world just totally going insane? This doctor not only is assumed to have touched his patients, he is now being charged with stockpiling weapons in his Carmichael in Northern California . . .
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February 28, 2008 05:45 PM EST --
Working as a CMT (certified medical transcriptionist), I get to hear a lot of silly things a doctor might say during dictation. Here are just a few. Have fun.
"Patient has two teenage . . .
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November 20, 2007 11:43 AM EST --
Mary Jackson (not her real name) is 93 years old, and has been my patient for 35 years. She stopped school after the 8 th grade. Nevertheless, she is always up on the latest news and is a shrewd . . .
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March 27, 2008 01:47 PM EDT --
(Disclaimer, I am not offering medical advice. Only your doctor or health care provider can offer you medical advice. Nothing I am writing is to be intended as a means to treat/manage any condition) . . .
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May 01, 2008 07:10 AM EDT --
This is a follow-up to the article about hospitals asking for payment up front from patients. It is taken from he same American College of Physician Executive Digest
On its website, the . . .
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March 26, 2009 04:10 AM EDT --
And we knew......but we didn't know.
You hear the warnings.
'Nurses eat their young'.
'You are only idealistic because . . .
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March 29, 2009 07:02 PM EDT --
Authorities said eight are dead after a gunman opened fire at the Pinelake Health and Rehabilitation Center on Pinehurst Avenue in Carthage, N.C. Sunday morning.
Police said 45-year-old Robert Stewart . . .
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November 13, 2007 06:50 PM EST --
I am interested to hear your thoughts on whether or not you feel that patients should be allowed to die if they choose. Currently, the only state that allows a patient to decide to die is Oregon. Why should/shouldn't . . .
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December 04, 2007 01:58 PM EST --
Both doctors and patients worry about pain, because it is often a symptom of something seriously wrong. However, we all experience some pain almost on a daily basis. Whether it’s . . .
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October 22, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
Yale University researchers say that doctors could benefit from creative writing through tapping into their own emotions.
In a small study of 15 medical residents at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, . . .
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December 04, 2007 02:02 PM EST --
Physical therapy isn’t helping my pain. Now what?
Question: I was in a car accident four weeks ago. I have had physical therapy for the last three weeks and it seems to hurt more than . . .
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September 10, 2009 04:06 PM EDT --
My daughter Jane and I moved in close to San Diego from about 60 miles out in the country this past July. Having few resources we had to do most of the moving alone so it was stressful both . . .
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September 13, 2007 06:36 PM EDT --
I did my 1st practice physical on a patient today and I found that I ran out of time before I did everything that I wanted to do. I know that I'm going to need to practice doing physicals a lot until . . .
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April 03, 2009 09:06 AM EDT --
Surviving and Thriving with Spina Bifida
Smelling the heavy scent of the sterilized room. Seeing . . .
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November 23, 2009 10:14 AM EST --
Question For Smokers (Or Previous Smokers)
I have a question for all smokers and previous smokers. When I am talking with a patient and I find out that they smoke, it is part of my job to help . . .
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