The Pain Game

By Elisabeth Rosenthal
Nov 1, 1993 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:42 AM

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Guess who’s in the waiting room? the charge nurse sings out in a high-pitched voice as she walks into the emergency department. Without waiting for our guesses, she answers herself: Livinia!

A chorus of doctors’ and nurses’ voices erupts from the work station.

Her again?

What a wimp.

But I just saw her here two weeks ago.

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