Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Seizure Woman

The next one is seizure woman. She was a friendly middle aged woman suffering from periodic seizures. One day our facilitator told me and my other classmate to go do neurological observations and glascow scales on her. She asked for permission in an orderly fashion and then had us play around with her hands and feet to test her strength.
The facilitator then did a eye response test using the mini torch and told my classmate to do it to the other eye. After she was done the facilitator asked me to do it. At this point the patient told us she was feeling a bit weird in the mouth, but the facilitator discarded it and told me to go on- so I did. Not long after I did my rounds of eye reflexes she started having epileptic seizures.

Immediately the facilitator ordered my classmate to press the red alarm button. She did and a whole medical team came up expecting to resuscitate a person from cardiac arrest or certain death. Of course they felt kinda pranked and the when asked who pressed the button, the facilitator did not fail to point out my classmate did it.

Anyway the one of the doctors stayed to give her therapy and the other nurses were taking her health stats. The patient stopped by now and the facilitator tried to jump in the middle of the working people and generally got in the way. Right after the team had left she told us to continue doing some more, my classmate said she wanted to "go to toilet" and I just walked away.

It was obvious that mm.. MAYBE PERHAPS THE CONSTANT FLICKERING OF LIGHTS INTO HER EYES TRIGGERED THE EPILEPSY?

Damn it, why did she even choose an epileptic seizure patient to be the target anyway when there are healthier patients who wouldn't suffer as much? Why didn't she take the warning signals carefully when the patient told us she did not feel well? Why didn't she tell the doctors that she was the one who suggested to press the rescue alarm? How could anyone worry about those stupid tests we were doing over the health/feelings of the patient? She treated her as more of a machine rather than a human, it was as if the patients feelings/emotions were irrelevant and once she was "repaired" we could go back to testing her out.

NO, BITCH THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS.


I can't believe this is the woman who failed me. If anyone was to fail, it would be her. She failed meet competent humanity and logical levels needed to live in any civilized society. I wish she loses the rights to facilitate and/or nurse because she really needs to find out where priorities lie.

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