Patient's Allusion Prompts Suicide Check# EnglishChat - 鸟语花香
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Be careful what you say to the nurse when you're in the hospital.
A 51-year-old high school teacher, hospitalized for a heart attack and hooked to numerous
machines, was forced to spend several hours talking to psychiatrists after he remarked that
the constraints of all the equipment made him feel like he was "in Peter Coffin's inn."
The nurse heard the word "coffin" and thought he might be suicidal. Psychiatrists were
called.
The reference is to Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" and the overcrowded
A 51-year-old high school teacher, hospitalized for a heart attack and hooked to numerous
machines, was forced to spend several hours talking to psychiatrists after he remarked that
the constraints of all the equipment made him feel like he was "in Peter Coffin's inn."
The nurse heard the word "coffin" and thought he might be suicidal. Psychiatrists were
called.
The reference is to Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" and the overcrowded