Caring for your own wounds: Lessons from the burn unit
“Someone call for a body bag.”
These were words that I didn’t expect to hear on my final day of burn surgery at large metropolitan hospital. We had just planned on a routine burn excision and skin grafting. Our patient, Faith, was a seven-year-old girl with third-degree burns to 85 percent of her body from a house fire. We had been caring for her in the ICU for the past three …
Caring for your own wounds: Lessons from the burn unit
