“Often,as these patients were being taken up to the ortho floor the nurses would say something like “she won’t leave here alive”.”
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Sounds like quite a caring nursing staff./s
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They didn't say it as a joke...they'd say it with a sense of sadness.When you work in that kind of setting you develop a rather unique view of death.
Sounds like quite a caring nursing staff./s
Just stating facts
many of the older crowd (I’m one of them) are sold on the idea of major orthopedic surgery when their body just can’t take the drain on their reserves. they may recover from the surgery but will succumb to the slightest illness to come along. Pneumonia, flu, etc.