{"id":21,"date":"2009-12-07T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/?p=21"},"modified":"2009-12-07T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:58:14","slug":"dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2009\/12\/07\/dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: Arial\">The registrar with a young medical student in tow wore an undecipherable expression on his face.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAre you looking after the patient in cubicle two,\u201d he enquired.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I acknowledged that I was.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWell I think you might have closed the curtain,\u201d he snapped.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I evidently looked confused.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWell she is dead,\u201d he said bluntly.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A rock landed in my stomach.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>My patient was dead and I hadn\u2019t noticed.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Worse still her daughter was sitting at the foot of the bed oblivious to the unexpected demise of her parent.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I raced into the cubicle, my worst fears realised as I gazed at the half open, lifeless eyes, the ashen skin, the head tipped slightly back in an attitude of everlasting peace.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I touched her hand wondering if the body had gone cold.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>As I did so she opened her eyes fully.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cCould I have another blanket dear,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The registrar with a young medical student in tow wore an undecipherable expression on his face.\u00a0 \u201cAre you looking after the patient in cubicle two,\u201d he enquired.\u00a0 I acknowledged that I was.\u00a0 \u201cWell I think you might have closed the curtain,\u201d he snapped.\u00a0 I evidently looked confused.\u00a0 \u201cWell she is dead,\u201d he said bluntly.\u00a0 A [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/2009\/12\/07\/dead\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,1192,1190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-department","category-evidence-based-nursing","category-student-nurse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn-confessions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}