Posted by Dinah on April 28, 2011, at 20:23:20
In reply to Re: is pleasant/but odd » floatingbridge, posted by mtdewcmu on April 28, 2011, at 12:40:53
> I worked in a hospital for a few years on the nursing staff, and as much as I hate to say it, patients whose records carried a psychiatric diagnosis were always harder to work with. They tended to be moodier and responded to things differently than the average patient. They had trouble with things that most patients didn't, and they were difficult to please. You have to have some sympathy for the medical staff.
You'd think the medical staff would realize that just as all legs don't work the same, all minds don't work the same. And accept that working with people who respond differently to the same stimulus, whether with legs or with minds, are part of their job. The thing they trained to deal with. The variability and dysfunction of the body. The brain is part of the body.
They knocked me out as soon as my son was born C-Section. I had the shakes. I also could feel the knife after I had been anaesthetized, and proved it by telling the doctor where it was as she traced it (without cutting) on my abdomen. She fussed at anaesthesiologist, but I don't know that it was his fault. It wasn't my fault either. People react differently to things.
The shot to induce labor didn't work on me either...
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