Friday, September 24, 2004
Bedside Manner
George Bush reminds me of a story they told us in medical school.
A doctor with great bedside manner and terrible judgement rushed to the bedside of the patient, where all the family was in attendance.
He decided the patient needed intravenous potassium. Rather than dripping it in slowly, he pushed it in all at once, causing the patient's immediate death.
Bedside manner intact, he turned to the family and said, "If only I'd gotten here a moment sooner."
A doctor with great bedside manner and terrible judgement rushed to the bedside of the patient, where all the family was in attendance.
He decided the patient needed intravenous potassium. Rather than dripping it in slowly, he pushed it in all at once, causing the patient's immediate death.
Bedside manner intact, he turned to the family and said, "If only I'd gotten here a moment sooner."
