Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being
discharged.
However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly
gentleman--
already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his
feet--who insisted he didn't need my help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him
to the elevator. On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting
him. "I don't know," he said. "She's still upstairs in the bathroom
changing out of her hospital gown."
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