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Archive > October, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 10

Behind Closed Doors

Sympathy for Our Patients

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

I've written before about how patients say the darndest things. But have you ever given much thought to how ludicrous the demands of perioperative care must seem to a patient? On top of all the built-in discomforts and disorientations of the surgical experience, we also ask patients to do the impossible and put up with the intolerable.

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