2. The Patient
A
young woman aged 28 seeks evaluation at the emergency unit of the
hospital because of abdominal pain for a few days. It is getting
worse and causes her nausea. She is examined at the Saint Howell
Hospital´s ER. Blood samples are taken and a brain CT scan shows no
lesion. She waits for the blood tests results and as these show only
an unspecific white cell count increase the attending physician sends
her home. She comes back the next morning feeling worse.
The pain has increased, she looks sweaty and nauseated. Feeling she will turn out as an undiagnosable annoying patient, the young woman and her mother are sent to see Dr. Tom Bardino. Dr. Bardino sits at room 26 by the end of the ER hallway holding his forehead with one hand while fumbling a pen over a sheet of paper with the other. He says nothing for a couple of minutes leading the patient to explode saying what the hell did he thing they were sitting there for.
He asks her some questions about her life but when he implies that she may be victim of her father´s sexual abuse she sits terrified while her mother has a burst of anger. Next, she watches Dr. Bardino look away from her, mumbling unintelligible words but managing to make her understand he wants her to lie on the examining couch on her right side. He presses his hand toward her left lateral abdomen and she resists outcrying with huge pain. He asks her what does she feel and she replies she feels the worst pain of her life. He asks again what did she really feel in her mind and she says she feels a rough hand grabbing her from behind.
Slowly he stands to a perfect upright stance, looks to the wall and says something strange about a pan-eculitis. He sees him walking out and later the ER´s supervising surgeon comes in telling her she will be kept in ER to receive treatment. Twenty-four hours later she is sent home with a prescription. She has no pain and no nausea. She feels just well. Mom is annoyed about her letting anyone mention her father.
The pain has increased, she looks sweaty and nauseated. Feeling she will turn out as an undiagnosable annoying patient, the young woman and her mother are sent to see Dr. Tom Bardino. Dr. Bardino sits at room 26 by the end of the ER hallway holding his forehead with one hand while fumbling a pen over a sheet of paper with the other. He says nothing for a couple of minutes leading the patient to explode saying what the hell did he thing they were sitting there for.
He asks her some questions about her life but when he implies that she may be victim of her father´s sexual abuse she sits terrified while her mother has a burst of anger. Next, she watches Dr. Bardino look away from her, mumbling unintelligible words but managing to make her understand he wants her to lie on the examining couch on her right side. He presses his hand toward her left lateral abdomen and she resists outcrying with huge pain. He asks her what does she feel and she replies she feels the worst pain of her life. He asks again what did she really feel in her mind and she says she feels a rough hand grabbing her from behind.
Slowly he stands to a perfect upright stance, looks to the wall and says something strange about a pan-eculitis. He sees him walking out and later the ER´s supervising surgeon comes in telling her she will be kept in ER to receive treatment. Twenty-four hours later she is sent home with a prescription. She has no pain and no nausea. She feels just well. Mom is annoyed about her letting anyone mention her father.
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