KevinMD November 20, 2024
As I lay abandoned on a stretcher in the hallway of my university hospital’s emergency room, I felt powerless in my ability to improve the quality of my care. Nurses bustled back and forth between patient rooms, too busy to give me the attention I deserved. My bladder was getting painfully full, but I was too weak to get up to use the restroom and unable to find anyone I could ask for help. For the nurses, there was no time to rest. For me, there was no relief from my symptoms of weakness and excruciating pain.
Later that night, I lay under the bright white lights of trauma room one. I wasn’t a trauma patient, but there were no...
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