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Archive > July, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 7

Behind Closed Doors

It's Not My Fault!

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

My co-worker Bird asked me if I was going to write something about fireworks for the July issue of this magazine. Well, not directly. But a conversation with my friend Haley about some recent sparks and flames around the OR put those incidents into perspective.

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