The Fragrant Gourmet

photo by Jesse Miksec

My sister Barbara, a student nurse, was walking down the hall when she smelled a fould odor coming from the surgical unit’s kitchenette. Upon investigation, she found a classmate heating a bowel movement in a pan upon the stove.

When Barbara asked, “What are you doing?” the classmate replied, “The patient’s Kardex said warm stool to lab.

by Donna Trim, RN, M