When I write about another oxytocin drip, it implies I must have written about it before. I have not called it 'virtual' when I wrote about it before, but it was indeed a virtual drip. You don't actually have to know about that one to understand today's post. But if you are curious, you can find that post at this link.
It was during a departmental meeting when I heard of this virtual oxytocin drip. It was observed in that civic hospital that the Boss' Boss publicly declared as the best of the three civic hospitals. The reason cited was that it delivered so many women, and nothing went wrong. That 'nothing went wrong' was a statement that should have been taken with not just a pinch of salt, but with a sack of salt. Anyway, someone has said 'the boss is always right'. Then the Boss' Boss must always be right, and more than right or more right, or whatever.
"We got over of this patient who was herself a lawyer" one senior senior staff member said. That hospital had a system in which they handed over all patients in the labor ward were handed over to a new unit in the morning. That way the previous unit was free to go away. "Her indoor paper said she had been on an oxytocin drip. When asked about it, she confirmed she was receiving an oxytocin drip, as she had been informed by her doctor. But there was no intravenous line, and no intravenous infusion of anything had been given to her. When asked if she knew what an oxytocin drip was, she said she did not know."
'It was a virtual oxytocin drip' I thought.
"May be she was being given oxytocin through gas' someone joked. 'Perhaps they called some doctor 'Gas' over there' I thought.
"Why did you come to this hospital?" this doctor asked her.
"To get good treatment' she said. 'She must have heard someone like the Boss' Boss' I thought.
It was during a departmental meeting when I heard of this virtual oxytocin drip. It was observed in that civic hospital that the Boss' Boss publicly declared as the best of the three civic hospitals. The reason cited was that it delivered so many women, and nothing went wrong. That 'nothing went wrong' was a statement that should have been taken with not just a pinch of salt, but with a sack of salt. Anyway, someone has said 'the boss is always right'. Then the Boss' Boss must always be right, and more than right or more right, or whatever.
"We got over of this patient who was herself a lawyer" one senior senior staff member said. That hospital had a system in which they handed over all patients in the labor ward were handed over to a new unit in the morning. That way the previous unit was free to go away. "Her indoor paper said she had been on an oxytocin drip. When asked about it, she confirmed she was receiving an oxytocin drip, as she had been informed by her doctor. But there was no intravenous line, and no intravenous infusion of anything had been given to her. When asked if she knew what an oxytocin drip was, she said she did not know."
'It was a virtual oxytocin drip' I thought.
"May be she was being given oxytocin through gas' someone joked. 'Perhaps they called some doctor 'Gas' over there' I thought.
"Why did you come to this hospital?" this doctor asked her.
"To get good treatment' she said. 'She must have heard someone like the Boss' Boss' I thought.
