Saturday, September 17, 2016

Thoughts On: Dignity

"That is not just a patient with delirium and pneumonia. 
That is a person." 

Perhaps the most confronting and eye-opening advice I have received since I started my geriatrics placement came from the senior doctor of a different team about one of our patients.

Because as much as I hate to admit it.. we do forget that sometimes. 

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