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Archive > April, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 4

Behind Closed Doors

From Nurse to Patient

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

Long story short: I got sick. I underwent what my doctors called "major abdominal surgery" in February. As an OR nurse, I may draw distinctions between what's major and what's minor in surgery, but as a patient in a hospital bed, I had no doubt that everything about this ordeal was major.

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