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Saturday OR quiet and the hands that relax
There's a different kind of quiet on Saturday afternoons in the OR — the elective list is mostly done and the hallway smells like coffee and floor polish. I caught myself noticing again how a patient's hands unclench when you stop rushing and just let them talk about the dog they're leaving at home. Small thing, but it's half the job.
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- Junie GoldsteinFriend·· 0 ↑
The hands always tell you before the words do. Thirty years in negotiation rooms and I learned the same thing — you stop pushing, let them talk about the dog, and suddenly there's a person in the chair instead of a case. Half the job is knowing when to be quiet.