It means her hemoglobin and/or hematocrit results came back low enough to support her complaints of lightheadedness and eventual loss of consciousness.
It means her hemoglobin and/or hematocrit results came back low enough to support her complaints of lightheadedness and eventual loss of consciousness.
I will! And I’m sorry you had to suffer so much. No one should have to go through that.
I guess I should be more specific. I’m trained to look for nonverbal as WELL as verbal signs of pain and autonomic changes. I’m looking for grimacing, teeth gritting, sweating, increased heart rate and breathing, rocking back and forth, moaning, etc ... If you can’t be bothered to look up from your instagram page when…
To be taken seriously, I honestly would put on a bit of an act and be visibly distressed (but not OVERLY dramatic) when being asessed for pain at a hospital or MD office.
Not staffed with scum, but folks who are thoroughly overworked, VERY underpaid and have too many critical patients at one time. We need more staff and far lower staff to patient ratios to be effective.
Yes! As a society we suck at taking care of each other! We’ve let the right-wing convince us that everyone needs to be wholly self-sufficient at all times and to sacrifice the good of many for the good of a select few. It doesn’t help when large swathes of the population votes against their own interests because they…
I’m a nurse and I don’t have any idea about a patients’ insurance coverage when they come in. That information isn’t privy to me unless I look deep into a patients record, which I’m too busy to do anyway. I get paid the same no matter if all my patients are indigent that day or if they all have cadillac health…