Richard Jernigan -> RE: PDL says you dont need to study ! (Nov. 14 2013 16:16:13)
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ORIGINAL: aeolus What I learned from this second visit, for a week, is they don't really care if you suffer. whether it's the DEA or what they don't give you enough dope and believe me broken ribs hurt! At age 91 my mother had major abdominal surgery. I spent the night at her bedside afterward. Her only complaint was that her back hurt. I went to the ward nurse's station and reported. I was ignored. The next morning my brother and his wife came by after church. The hospital is part of the large medical complex at Galveston. For years my sister-in-law ran the nurse practitioner education program. My brother was head of the Aerospace Medicine Department at the medical school. My sister-in-law asked my mother how she was. My mother replied, "I'm doing OK" I said, "Her back hurts." My sister-in-law asked, "Would you like something for it?" "It might help." My sister-in-law went to the nurse's station and brought the head nurse into the room. My sister-in-law said, "This woman is one of the toughest people I know. She is not a cry baby. When she says her back hurts, she needs some pain medication." In five minutes a young M.D. with a neatly trimmed VanDyke beard appeared from the Pain Management Department. Right away he was saying, "Yes, Mrs. Jernigan, No Mrs. Jernigan, of course, Mrs. Jernigan, right away Mrs. Jernigan." My brother stood silently in the background. The young M.D. was well aware of who my brother was, but he was taking his orders from my sister-in-law, the nurse practitioner. He knew who she was too, and that she wasn't going to take any bull s h i t from him. A machine was promptly rolled into the room. An intravenous injection was hooked up. The machine delivered medication when my mother pressed a button. When my brother and sister-in-law came back to take over for the night, I said, "I'm glad you showed up when you did. Those people just ignored me." My sister-in-law just frowned and shook her head. RNJ
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