Commentary: Care is in short supply. Ask nurses
by Christie Watson, Los Angeles Times
May 29, 2018
2 minutes
Betty was lying on a gurney in a hospital corridor. She was elderly, frail and shivering with cold. More than that, she was frightened and completely alone.
I took her temperature - a low temperature being a sign of sepsis in the elderly - but it wasn't extreme. She'd been admitted with chest pain and she clutched her chest, starfishing her
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