Conditions and diseases

A code in the cath lab that was unlike anything I had ever seen

An excerpt from The Other Side of the Bed: What Patients Go Through and What Doctors Can Learn. As soon as I’d opened my mouth, I regretted it. In the hospital, it’s bad luck to say “It looks quiet,” or…

An excerpt from The Other Side of the Bed: What Patients Go Through and What Doctors Can Learn.

As soon as I’d opened my mouth, I regretted it. In the hospital, it’s bad luck to say “It looks quiet,” or anything to that effect. At the sound of those words, alarms begin to ring. In the hospital, crises always seem to come in waves. There are spurts of relative …

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A code in the cath lab that was unlike anything I had ever seen