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Behind Closed Doors
What I Wish I Could Tell Patients
Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

  • That skinny man carrying the big book is your surgeon. He isn't carrying the book for weight training (we OR nurses do all the heavy lifting) it's instructions for your surgery. Relax, I'm sure it's just a security-blanket-type thing. Besides, he could never bring it to the surgical field: It'd ruin the book.
  • You might be surprised to learn that music is a big part of your surgery, and that your surgeon wants rock 'n? roll and wants it loud. That's fine by us: It drowns out his four-letter words and whining.
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