Archive for September 2021

Don’t Hang Up! When you are lying in the hospital bed, get a call from a family member or friend and are chatting away, and a doctor or nurse walks in, your first reaction is probably to say, “I have to go, the doctor is here.” Instead, it should be, “The doctor is here: I’m…

I was sitting with a patient who was still groggy after surgery when the doctor said he would send her home with pain medication.  The patient said “ok”. I asked the doctor if the pain medication was an opioid and he said it was.  I knew the patient didn’t want to take an opioid and…