Looking for an article - need HELP!

[boxerdoc]

One of my docs recently asked his team to find an aricle he had read. He didn't know the title, nor the author, nor the journal from which it came. He only knew the basic premise of the story.

I have looked and looked and looked! I have googled it. I have used every hospital resource we have. I've called local facilities and the Board. I just can't find it. So I am asking for the help of forum goers. Here's what I know:

It was an article (or maybe an editorial) in some type of journal. It was about an elderly lady who had been hospitalized. She spoke of how everyone did their tasks and did them well. People came in, did what they needed to do, then left. She said she was very well taken care OF - but never did she feel cared ABOUT. The doc thinks it may have been written by the woman's son, who is a physician.

When I was asking around, I received numerous copies of a poem called "The Old Lady Story" or "What Do You See". My assured me that this was NOT what he wanted. It was an article, or a editorial and it has been published in some journal, withing the last FOUR years!!!

Any leads would be greatly appreciated!

[Reddy,RN]

Time to winnow the haystack by getting more information. Was it read from a glossy periodical or a newsletter or online or a photocopy? If it had an emotional impact on this doctor, there should be more details of that "reading" experience available. And what is making it so important? Is it to be cited? Surely the point has been made eloquently in many places by many people.

Unless the doctor reads more than 50 periodicals on a regular basis, a systematic search of the ones he reads isn't impossible. And all recent issues (after a date to be determined by the doctor) can be ignored.

I wouldn't go by the 5 year limit, though. After all it's been 25 years since John Lennon was killed and that's hard to believe. Five years can turn into 10 in the blink of an eye.

Happy hunting.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

Is this the same article that prompted a medical school to have its students pretend to be patients so they could learn the indignities that we subject our patients to?