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In a message dated 2/14/2003 4:54:47 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:


> Asking kids a
> million questions about their family life,
> "risk-factors" (ie alchohol, drug, food choices),
> grades, and then funneling them to a counselor if they
> fell out of the range we considered "normal".
> These poor kids must've felt like they were under a
> microscope.

I'm wondering if that isn't maybe just how the world is now, not just for
kids. When I broke my ankle, I was asked a million questions about how it
happened. Over and over again by many different people. I was on morphine,
but it was still clear to me that they were trying to see if my husband beat
me. By the third day in the hospital, I thought they were trying to see if I
was a drunk - I had admitted to having wine with dinner when we can afford
it.

Or maybe the drugs THEY gave me just made me paranoid?

Elizabeth


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Have a Nice Day!

There is an element of truth to the idea that health care workers question the possibility of abuse. I think most of the people I work with (and I work in trauma) try to give the benefit of the doubt though.

But the fact is, at least where I work, that each time you are moved to a new area, from ER, to preoperative, to OR, to post operative, to the new floor, etc. You will be asked the same questions.

And the only reason is because we all have our own admission forms to fill out and the paperwork is not always finished in one place before you get moved to the next.

Inefficient, but true.

Kristen
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Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:39 PM
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In a message dated 2/14/2003 4:54:47 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:


> Asking kids a
> million questions about their family life,
> "risk-factors" (ie alchohol, drug, food choices),
> grades, and then funneling them to a counselor if they
> fell out of the range we considered "normal".
> These poor kids must've felt like they were under a
> microscope.

I'm wondering if that isn't maybe just how the world is now, not just for
kids. When I broke my ankle, I was asked a million questions about how it
happened. Over and over again by many different people. I was on morphine,
but it was still clear to me that they were trying to see if my husband beat
me. By the third day in the hospital, I thought they were trying to see if I
was a drunk - I had admitted to having wine with dinner when we can afford
it.

Or maybe the drugs THEY gave me just made me paranoid?

Elizabeth


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