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- Feb 25, 2021
It's OK; hospital management will reassure you that nurses are bipedal, human-appearing punching bags for patients' emotional and physical use.
Standing in the hallway and (self-reported) screaming and crying in front of the surgeon, though. That's one way to get results. Maybe not the results he wants, but results.
Mystery pills appear at patient bedside --> no visitors allowed. That's pretty straightforward; throwing "trans" in is an attempt to obfuscate.
The patient also keeps reiterating it's "ibuprofin [sic]" because it's OTC; he is no longer mentioning the (presumably) prescription-only HRT pills. The patient knows what these pills are, but when confronted with unlabeled loose pill the nurse has to use a pill identifier or, more likely, send them to Pharmacy.
This generates paperwork. This patient's unfortunate nurse is now at least two incident reports deep, which is definitely what nurses prefer to do rather than care for patients or do the regular required shitload of documentation for every action, no matter how slight. Hanging over the nurse's head: the inevitable meeting with Management, and the phrase "how could you have handled this differently?"
If the RN actually used the phrase "play the trans card," I have a small and secret hope that Risk Management, at least, has begun to see a pattern in their trans clients. One that impacts reimbursement.
Literally the third line of "Walk on the Wild Side' highlights the importance of plucking your eyebrows. How have we come to this?
