Remember in grade school when one kid acted up in class and the teacher made everyone stay after school? How fair was that anyway? Sometimes everyone stayed mad at the kid for a day or two, or more, depending on how much he was a troublemaker. But if he was popular, other kids often covered for him, leaving the teacher totally clueless about what really was going on. Then everyone but the teacher had some fun! Consider patients like the one that won't take his meds just because his toes seem "funny" even though he can't tell you why ("Uhm, I just sort a feel like I have a toe spasm coming on, and I think it's because of that anti-seizure stuff you make me take") .Your careful nursing assessment shows no abnormalities.
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