Hot Topics: Do We Make the Difficult Patient, More Difficult?

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I walked into the Interventional Radiology (IR) Suite, and the radiology technologist (RT) greeted me with substantial irritation saying, "Good luck Val, he's rude. He won't do anything I say, and now he's doing something weird with his clothes. He needs a dialysis catheter, but I don't know how we're supposed to do it on him." I looked through the control room window and saw a young man, standing near his stretcher, slowly removing his clothes and realized that he was changing from his clothes into a hospital gown. It was strange that he came from an inpatient unit to IR, wearing street clothes.