I told her she wins "best hairstyle of the entire week." That made her laugh out loud in between passing meds and caring for her patients. I also told her that she probably brightens up her patients' days when they see that she will be their nurse. Thinking that the same love and meticulousness that went into that perfectly round afro will go into them, too.
And you know what? It does. I've worked with her and know for sure that it does.
Now this? This, too, is Grady.
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Happy Sunday.
Now playing on my mental iPod. . . .with love for the nurses who put love into everything they do.
Honestly? I write this blog to share the human aspects of medicine + teaching + work/life balance with others and myself -- and to honor the public hospital and her patients--but never at the expense of patient privacy or dignity.
Thanks for stopping by! :)
"One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends of how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give."
~ James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
"Do it for the story." ~ Antoinette Nguyen, MD, MPH
Details, names, time frames, etc. are always changed to protect anonymity. This may or may not be an amalgamation of true,quasi-true, or completely fictional events. But the lessons? They are always real and never, ever fictional. Got that?
I love how much you appreciate nurses...it speaks volumes about you as a doctor!
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Nurses are our rocks. This I know for sure.
ReplyDeleteNow I 'preciate you Miss Manning!
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