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Saturday, March 05, 2005A lady reports that hugging has spread to medical laboratories. 'The problem, chiefly of concern to women, is unwanted hugging and other pseudo-affectionate, nonmedical touching by medical personnel,' she writes. 'The intent seems to be to develop an instant relationship. A number of medical technicians hug the patient far too tightly and with far too great affection as they escort the patient to the X-ray room. They then take the mammogram, all the while hugging the patient between X-rays, and they then hug the patient on the way back to the waiting room. This has happened to me three times, at three facilities. On the last, I told the technician as she was walking me from room to room, tightly hugging me all the while, to stop hugging me. That angered her, and she went out and complained to the staff personnel that I was irritable. And it was impolite to call her "irritable," within earshot, too. Elsewhere, a nurse commits a much more serious breach of medical manners: The former licensed practical nurse gave milk of magnesia to five residents of Wildwood Care Center on Hadcock Road in Brunswick, knowing it would act as a laxative. She told a probation officer that she did it to get back at the day-shift nurse. Serious enough that she's going to jail for 10 months. posted by Sydney on 3/05/2005 07:31:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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