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Archive > January, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 1

Behind Closed Doors

Will This Case Ever End?

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

My cell phone committed suicide while I was on call one Friday night. It jumped off the waist of my jeans, took a swan dive into the toilet and drowned. You'll have to imagine the look of horror on my face as I shrieked an unprintable word and watched the bubbles rise to the surface while the phone sank to the bottom of the porcelain bowl.

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