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2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
This collection has the same experience described from both sides — worth reading as a pair.
We were managing her daughter beautifully. It took eleven days for anyone to work out that she had not been home in that time, and that the person we were about to discharge a baby to was closer to collapse than the baby was.
It is in my notes, I have seen it: "poorly compliant with fluid restriction". Four years of doing something impossibly hard imperfectly, summarised as a character flaw. Here is what that word does.