One of the most difficult things about working in the emergency department was making a phone call. Not just any phone call, but a call at midnight, or 2 a.m., a call to a parent who might be waiting for his teenager to return home from an evening out with friends. A call that would change a family forever. A call that no one ever wants to make. A call to say “I am calling about your son. He has been in a car crash and is in the emergency department. Can you come to the hospital? . . . Is there someone who can come with you?” It is the call that parents dread, and that we dreaded making. And, it is a call that doesn’t have to happen.
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October 19th, 2012 10:04 am ET - Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
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