Second patient on my list this morning was 240kgs. I\u2019ve been agonizing about it all weekend. He was tall – but not tall enough. Luckily everything went swimmingly. He turned to me when he woke up, and the first thing he said was \u201cYou nurses need to be paid more!\u201d Bittersweet. I can\u2019t disagree with him. I\u2019m not actually a nurse of course, but it\u2019s a common misapprehension. He might be pleased to know I\u2019m better paid than a nurse, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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