A review by knp4597
A History of the Present Illness by Louise Aronson

2.0

I've decided to change my rating based on my personal experiences. I've been an RN at UCLA for the past 6 1/2 years and although I am on "friendly" terms with some of the physicians I work with, I have NEVER come across one of them who express sentiments like these. Doctors rarely give their patients a second thought after leaving the room (if they ever enter it to begin with) much less show any empathy at all. They don't even do a hand-on exam any more. They rely on the bedside nurse who is with the patient 24/7, and the on staff Nurse Practitioner to actually lay hands on the patient for an initial H&P - which they promptly copy and paste into their notes as though it were their own to lay claim to. So I call a big bullshit on all these stories. Pure fiction. Would be nice if they were true, but in reality it just doesn't happen.