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Like it or not, Twitter saved my friend's afternoon over Spring Break
By Kevin Saucier / Opinions Editor | April 22Staff Column
Kevin Saucier / Opinions Editor
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An emergency room visit featuring awkward jokes, irony and X-rays
By Kevin Saucier / Opinions Editor | April 9Maybe some nursing students can help me out with this.I want to know about the standard procedure for small talk with patients, specifically if you are taught that the stock answer for when a patient greets you and asks how you are doing is "Better than you!"I had three staff members at the East Alabama Medical Center give me that same exact joke when I was getting X-rayed recently for what turned out to be a broken clavicle.I imagine that if this line of dialogue is in a text book somewhere, there's probably a disclaimer stating, "Do not use this for any patient suffering an injury more serious than a broken clavicle.