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Is there a hypocrisy in healthcare?

As a nursing student, I worked on a step down cardiac unit.  We primarily took care of people that had cardiac bypass surgery. I worked with great people.  They taught me so much!  I learned everything from the importance of chest percussions on a new postop patient to reading telemetry (heart monitors) to taking care of chest tubes and assisting during codes.  My mind was challenged and I was in heaven.  But….there was one thing that dumbfounded me…how was it that they extremely intelligent people did not practice what they preached?

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