Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged.
However, while working as a student nurse, I encountered an elderly gentleman who was already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, insisting he didn’t need my help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.
On the way down, I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
‘I don’t know,’ he said.
‘She’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.’
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