Get me out alive.

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Get me out alive.

May 17, 2006

Feldman R. Washington Post. May 2, 2006.

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In this article, a nurse shares her firsthand account of what it was like to be a surgical patient and the surprising safety and quality shortcomings she encountered during her hospital stay.

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