When Hospital Paperwork Crowds Out Hospital Care

A FRIEND was recently hospitalized after a bicycle accident. At one point a nursing student, together with a more senior nurse, rolled a computer on wheels into the room and asked my friend to rate her pain on a scale of 1 to 10.
She mumbled, “4 to 5.” The student put 5 into the computer — and then they left, without further inquiring about, or relieving, my friend’s pain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/opinion/sunday/when-hospital-paperwork-crowds-out-hospital-care.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

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