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When a Hospital Fires Patient in Need, Who’s Responsible?

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Hospital evicts 800-pound man Most nurses have met the patient who gets in their own way, makes themselves impossible to help, an endless litany of excuses and rationalizations, how it’s everyone else’s’ fault they don’t get better. What to do? Sometimes facilities punt: discharge the problem and walk away, temporarily or permanently. Who’s responsible, in the end? Any thoughts?Filed under: Healthy Mind, RN Tagged: Addiction, Ethics, health care, Hospital, life, Nurse, nursing, responsibility, work

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