Instead of having her checked in a hotel, the insurance company serving the daughter who has undergone MVR, AVR, thrombieectomy and IOTEE, has decided to have the mother(a Micronesian) admitted to the hospital. She is actually occupying the room in our ward her daughter has vacated when transported to OR.
Since there was a complication, the girl was placed on heart pump and mechanical ventilation. The neuro-surgeon wanted to talk to the mother of the patient and we informed him that the mother barely understands English hence a need for an interpreter. Despite our attempt to convince him to get an interpreter, the doctor went on with his plan of talking to the mother. He just informed us that he’ll try to act and we obliged.
He let him inside the mother’s room and he introduced himself. At first the mother looked okay but when the doctor acted out as if he chopped his skull and stood still and closed her eyes, the mother began to panic. That was our queue to stop the doctor and call the interpreter in the other hospital.
The co-staff nurse and I were actually fighting hard not to laugh at the moment. Seeing a hardcore surgeon doing the “charades” is ridiculous.
We reserved our laughter until we punched out of the hospital.
Kindly check my story on The great barrier for the details about the girl’s story.