/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120826_Ansell_LB-154x100.gif /_media/adv/web/images/2013/20130601_Healthmark_LB-154x100.jpg /_media/adv/web/images/2011/20110124_ImageFirst_LB-154x100.gif
Digital Issues

Vol. XIV, No. 1Archive > January, 2013

Cutting Remarks - The Waiting Room

You learn a lot when you visit the patient's family after surgery.

John Kelly, IV, MD

patient's family FRIENDLY CHAT Meeting with the patient's family after surgery in the waiting room is always a fun sociological exercise.

The waiting room is a cross-section of family life. I just wish I had more slices of The Waltons instead of Modern Family. Still, I always marvel at the variety of personality styles I encounter in the waiting room.

 
Have an account? Please sign in:
Email Address:
Password:
Keywords:
Addams; Call; Dad; Death; Destruction.” Dr. Makary; Dr. Hodad; Harvard Medical School's; Hodad; Hospitals; Jerry Springer; Johnny's; Makary; Medical School's; Mom; ORs; Parents; School's; Springer; TV; Waltons; Xanax; accompanied; add; affiliated; attempts; avoids; back; bring; calling; cast; coffee; commercial; conveniently; conversation; country; cross-section; dad; daughter's; decide; details; doctor; encounter; energy; everything.”; eye; family; finish; folks; forget; gain; glued; hospital; houselights; informing; interaction; kind; laid; locally; make; making; marvel; member; mentions... show all keywords
Addams; Call; Dad; Death; Destruction.” Dr. Makary; Dr. Hodad; Harvard Medical School's; Hodad; Hospitals; Jerry Springer; Johnny's; Makary; Medical School's; Mom; ORs; Parents; School's; Springer; TV; Waltons; Xanax; accompanied; add; affiliated; attempts; avoids; back; bring; calling; cast; coffee; commercial; conveniently; conversation; country; cross-section; dad; daughter's; decide; details; doctor; encounter; energy; everything.”; eye; family; finish; folks; forget; gain; glued; hospital; houselights; informing; interaction; kind; laid; locally; make; making; marvel; member; mentions; mind; minutes; mom; negative; neighbor; numerous; nurses; operated; pain; parents; patient; patients; personality; places; poor; prescriptions; prestigious; procedure; public; quick; quickly; rarely; real; referred; referring; relay; remembers; report; resident; resuscitated; return; room; rotated; rounds; security; seldom; sit; slices; souls; staff; status; student; surgeon; surgery; tale; teaching; team; tells; thought; thousands; through,”; variety; waiting; well-known; working
DID YOU SEE THIS?
Infection Control

Yes You Can Remove Biofilm from Endoscopes and Stainless Instruments

http://view.atdmt.com/BBP/view/446595201/direct/01/

Other Articles That May Interest You

Legal Update - Legal Liability in Post-Discharge Phone Calls

How should this nurse have handled patient's post-op complaint?

Stay Vigilant Against Deep Vein Thrombosis

Prophylaxis should be the rule for most every patient, not the exception.

Business Advisor - Ready for the New Healthcare Consumer?

Cost concerns have turned patients into proactive customers.