[AG forwarded this story for the grif.net]
Hospital regulations required a wheelchair for patients being discharged.
However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman –
already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet – who
insisted he did NOT need any help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about ‘rules being rules’, he reluctantly let me wheel him to
the elevator. On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
“I don’t know,” he said. “She’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out
of her hospital gown.”
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Dr Bob Griffin
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