globe: On the second day of his economy-focused tour of battleground states, he shadowed a nurse on her rounds at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
According to a press pool report, filed by Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post:
Obama showed up at 7 a.m. at the hospital's cardiac unit, dressed in gray slacks and a white dress shirt, sleeves rolled up.
He peppered cardiac nurse Kate Marzluf, 26, with questions. When she showed him the medical charts of the five patients she was working with, he asked, “This is all in code, huh?”
When they looked at computerized monitors displaying vital signs, Obama stared intently at one patient’s squiggly lines. “How come it’s so messy?” he asked. “How old is she?”
When Obama watched Marzluf put cups and needles into a plastic tray, he asked, “I know this is a stupid question, but how do you make sure you’re not mixing stuff up?”
As the nurse talked about the morning’s procedures, Obama said some of it “makes me faint just to think about it. You’re not drawing any blood, are you?”
Obama also inquired about nurses working three 12-hour shifts and asked, “Is hospital food not as bad as it used to be?”
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Obama Shadows a Nurse
this isn't the first time he's done this.
