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06-09-2010, 02:13 AM
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comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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Big Breaths
At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall.
'Big breaths,' I instructed. 'Yes, they used to be,' replied the patient...
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