Sometimes I wish that doctors communicated with each other a little more when a patient is in the hospital... because generally the mess they leave in their wake is a nightmare for the nurses to clean up.
One doctor entered this patients room today and informed him of the 'good news'. The good news was that the "brain lesion" that was found on the initial CT done in the ED was not a tumor and was not a stroke. I agree that is good news.
The patient was elated with this news. The patient and their spouse were both in pleasant moods, the patient was smiling (for the first time since admission). Things were looking up for them. Can you blame them??
Then the next doctor enters the room. The patient was positive for lymphoma. So the patient just took a wild diagnosis rollercoaster. And now an emotional rollercoaster.
WTF do you do as the nurse now?? How can we compete with this?
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