
Patient-Doctor Discussion #1
The Clinical Excellence Podcast
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Is There a Difference Between Pre-Op and Post-Operation Instruction?
I had a mastectomy and they gave me both pre-op and post-op instructions. As someone whose academic specialty involves the precise use of language, let us say, neither set of instructions was clear. I couldn't believe that the night before a major surgery, which is stressful enough, to open this package of wipes and the instructions from the clinic and the instructions on the wipes are completely contradictory. They can't both be done. Things like this just add stress or aftercare instructions for dealing with plant drains and things like this. Medicine needs to be a little more open that there may be other people than doctors who can write with greater precision technical writers, bring in some extra expertise.
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