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[KaraBulut]

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[gsdx]

Why doesn't Mitch have a hospital ID band on his wrist?

 

[Alistair]

Why doesn't Mitch have a hospital ID band on his wrist?

I think it’s photoshopped. His hands are morphed together too

 

[gsdx]

^ I thought maybe hospitals had different patient rules than we do up here.

When I was in hospital for a month, I was on medications 4 times a day. I knew all of the nurses by name, and they certainly got to know me quite intimately, but every time they brought my meds, I had to tell them my birth date, and the wrist bands had to be cut off when I was released.

 

[TX-Beau]

I went in for a concussion once and they had the id on my ankle.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

but every time they brought my meds, I had to tell them my birth date

That's one of the checklist/redundancy safeguard practices that starting spreading over the last 15 years or so. It's to make absolutely sure that you are who they think you are and that they have the right chart in their hands.

When I go to get a colonoscopy or a gastric endoscopy (until this year, finally, I had to have one or the other ever year), every single damn time I encountered someone new or someone who hadn't seen me within something like the past half-hour, I had to tell them my name and birthdate and what procedure I was there for.

That kind of thing gets annoying for the patient (and probably for the healthcare people, too), but instituting that practice has cut way down on the kind of stupid mistakes that make the news and get people sued for malpractice.

 

[KaraBulut]

^ I thought maybe hospitals had different patient rules than we do up here.

The picture looks like non-American stock photograph that was Photoshopped. The bed that he's in is the kind that would be used in an emergency dept or a recovery area. It's not the type of bed used in an US inpatient room.

You were asked your name because of the "7 rights protocol". In the US, most hospitals scan the barcode your wristband before administering medications to confirm the 7 rights.

 

[rareboy]

It is also highly unlikely that a wristwatch would be left in place.

 

[cityboy-stl]

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A little reminder from 2016....

 

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