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Health Affairs, 27, no. 1 (2008): 210-215 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.1.210 © 2008 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Narrative Matters

The Face-Off

Ray Bingham

OUR HEATED EXCHANGE STOPPED. We both fell silent; words had failed. Deni and I faced each other across the small table at the foot of the patient’s bed, glowering. Deni’s clinched fists rested on the table as he bent toward me. I put down my nursing flow sheet, laid my open hands on the table, and leaned forward, unwilling to back off an inch.

I’d never heard of a dispute between a doctor and a nurse in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) coming to fisticuffs. However, it was 6 a.m., and Deni had been on duty since . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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