Tonight held an event familiar to anyone who wears a pager: we drove to a restaurant, ordered, and the moment the food came, the pager goes off: a nursing home transfer. We get up, ask the wait staff to hold our food, and head over.
The call was fairly routine - from the nursing home to the hospital. Had a little trouble with the blood pressure, but worked it out. The patient was visibly frightened - I always feel bad for folks that feel lost and insecure about the three of us coming in to take them off to the hospital, but we're as gentle as possible and the nursing staff was very good in this case.
The only catch came at the end, when my partner comes up to me and says, "Wash your hands extra well. The patient had MRSA."
Just what I've always wanted.
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MRSA?
Note that MRSA in the entry is a link. -Peter
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