The objective measures that health care workers focus on are necessary, but theyre not enough by themselves. Every provider in this mans case had good intentions and was working hard to respond to the medical emergency. But in their rush to open the blocked heart artery, they treated him as a disease to be cured, not a person to be cared for. Would it have alleviated the patients anxiety for the doctors and nurses to introduce themselves, and to ask if he wanted his wife by his side? Would it have helped to assure him that all the activity was happening around him because everyone was trying to take care of him? I think those simple courtesies would have made a difference.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 06:00:48 +0000
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