I love the internet (or this week's Nuggets)

Which is where I ran into these articles, thanks to my favorite publications, as well as some fellow bloggers.

Hope you enjoy!

Mistakes
Frankly, since I've started working at the Hotel, I've been mistaken at odd times for a doctor, a nurse assistant, a sales person, a stripper and a random person in scrubs. I have never been offended by these descriptions because I take them at face value: the patient was delirious, delusional, demented or just plain oversexed (sorry couldn't think of a D adjective for that last one).

I ran into this KevinMD op-ed (which I highly enjoyed the angst because of the Nerdy Nurse) of this obviously almost 30 something year old woman who is mistaken for a nurse, when she has those coveted MD letters on her white coat.

All I have to say is, if you had the demented character who said you reminded him of a stripper, you'd have thanked your lucky stars he called you a nurse instead. Far worse has happened...

An innocent abroad

All I have to say is, I'm not going to say to much, or I'll have to plead the Fifth, but this is a very interesting article if you are a little technologically inclined. It's just the tip of the iceberg, and I thank my lucky stars that my only cultural barriers right now are between hospital departments.

If you only read the first two sentences...

You may very well see your own career trajectory right before your very eyes. The words that struck me:
"hospitals need to create a patient-centered culture founded in principles of compassion, service and high quality"

You got it, Sabrina. Indeed.