Undressing a new patient in the nursing home and discovering massive decubiti, or bedsores. The common response from their home caregivers was “ Oh, but she/he can’t see the TV if she/he was turned on his/her other side.,” or “ I didn’t think I had to move her/him in bed.” I’m a doctor of physical therapy and when I was on a clinical rotation in school I had my most embarrassing incident and the guy wasn’t even naked! I had to do an examination on a retired man. I asked him if he had shorts to put on and he said he was wearing them under his exercise pants. As he stood And lowered the exercise pants a rather soiled pair of underwear fell on the ground. He didn’t notice as they fell back behind his feet. I glanced over at my clinical instructor in a “what the what?!?” Kind of way. He was trying not to laugh. I might explain, I’m getting graded on everything, the
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