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Archive > September, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 9

Behind Closed Doors

Pick Your Poison

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

I am by no means promoting the consumption of alcoholic beverages, but everyone has to unwind after a day in surgery, and some, to quote an old line, find that liquor is quicker. Personally, I don't have an extensive knowledge of libations, but a recent cocktail-hour conversation with my OR friends Haley and Bird opened my eyes to the multitude of concoctions available at day's end. Given the drinks' colorful names - some printable, some not - I realized that whatever their inventors were thinking, it was possible that they had surgical nursing in mind. Cheers!

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