A cold, hard lesson about patient dumping
A 22-year-old woman with Asperger’s syndrome was seen on a frigid night in January 2018 for a fall-related head injury…
I am an RN in a small community hospital. Last month, I admitted a young woman who had suffered a head injury resulting from an assault. The patient only spoke Spanish and her male companion insisted on interpreting for her. The young woman had no family present, and her companion offered to consent to her treatment, although he was not related.
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