THE RYLE’S
TUBE INCIDENT:
I
have seen a patient introduce a Ryle’s tube through her nose into the stomach by
herself! Patients can indeed never cease to surprise you. While dirty green and
sticky juice trickled from the end of that pipeline into the waste bin below,
the sick old lady squirmed at the sight of that steady stream and so looked
away. Thus she saw me approaching her and a weary and toothless smile survived
and scraped through her parched lips. She put it in herself because she did not
want to struggle with another person trying to force it in a third time!
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