i beg you…

if you put those ECG electrodes on a patient’s chest, let them know it is there to connect the heart monitor leads on, and that when the leads are disconnected, it can be taken off. let them know it is not medicine, and definitely not a device used to attract some sort of energy from outerspace to heal them.

better yet…

make sure you take them off before the patient goes home.

i’m not being bossy, i just don’t want to hear another version of what i heard from a friend this morning: “he is okay, they sent him home with a medicine. a little round thing with some steel looking thing that was stuck on his chest. i told him to keep it on. i know it’s uncomfortable, but hey, if it helps him, he should keep it stuck there.”

other than that…let us be grateful to God, and enjoy all the people and things we have this holiday season.