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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    That was cool of them to have done for
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    Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    Up until they took it out I could tell that there was light through my right eye. I couldn't necesarilly tell you were it was coming from but I knew it was
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    To Terminate or Not to Terminate

    That was a horrible thing for the doctor to do. He had no right to do that. Glad they got a new
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    Regis's view of nurses - after open heart surgery

    I know I am a weird case because I have had so much medical stuff...I realized when I was 8 that it was nurses that really do more for the
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    Pediatric ER

    I am a patient and what I am about to say is my observation. I go to a pediatric hospital. When I ended up in the ER this past December I saw some things. *I saw some older patients like me who had...
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    To Terminate or Not to Terminate

    by the sound of it "Baby" had a "long" and amazing
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    Butt Checks

    I am not sure how, as a patient I would feel with this. Someone who is NOT my nurse examining me so intimately to check if they are doing their job. You at least have a bit of a relationship with your...
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    I only have the utmost respect for my nurses (usually). As long as they treat ME with respect I will treat THEM with respect. They are human just like me and they are charged with keeping/getting me...
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Thanks Leslie. it is one thing as a patient I worry about. Being seen as needy or a pain to my nurses. Which I realize I probably am not, but I do not want to
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Only time I made this comment was because I was glad. I had seen my evening shift nurse a total of 1 time the whole shift. She got me a new pulse ox monitor finger tip sticker thinggy put it on the...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    I agree. As long as the nurse knows what they are doing and does not cause an unneeded level of pain (because I know that some things they do is going to cause pain no matter how skilled they are),...
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    A doctor helps children change their gender

    Oh ok that makes sense. I was trying to immagine a "confused" infant. Not to say these children are confused but you know what I
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    A doctor helps children change their gender

    I know it is a childrens hospital (lol. I would hope I knew that since I am a patient there) but I do not see why they mention infants. How can infants be sexually confused. I just learned in...
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    A doctor helps children change their gender

    This is from the childrens hospital website. It is the page about his gender services: http://www.childrenshospital.org/clinicalservices/Site2280/mainpageS2280P0.html The Gender Management Service...
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    Do big girls and boys really cry??

    I would appreciate if I was in a bad situation and my nurse cried a bit. It would show they TRUELY cared about
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    Strangest thing you've heard a co-worker or patient say?

    Thanks for the explanation. I just could not figure it out. I am so
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    Pets as therapy

    I am a patinet at a peds hospital. I do not know how it works but I have heard it is
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    Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    I would have also. I worked retail and always got embarassed even if I just needed to ring them up, let alone making taht
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    Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    Ouch.
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    "Patient" or "Client"?

    This is from a PATIENT that is exactly what I am a patient. I would be offended if I were referred to as a client. Just don't like
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    Child Restraint During Induction ?

    After all the surgeries I have had it does not scare me anymore to go under anesthesia. There is of course always that little bit of an edge. The soft words and nurse holding my hand gets rid of those...
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    Funniest injury you have ever seen.....

    It has been a long time but,
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    Strangest thing you've heard a co-worker or patient say?

    I am sorry but I need to ask as a female non-nurse. How do you sprain your
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    I hate direct admits

    I recently started doing just this. I made one of those printable cards with medical info on them. it has my name, medications, allergies, medical conditions, and a docs info (I chose the doc who...
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    I've been a nurse for......

    Congrats. As for the breakroom, if you go into you subscriptions you can get to it by going through one of the threads that is in the break room. I actuall really was not. it feels wierd to think of...