One of the lighter stories that I enjoyed: > CCU, night shift: A house painter who cut himself now has full-blown tetanus and is on a ventilator. We have paral

One of the lighter stories that I enjoyed: > CCU, night shift: A house painter who cut himself now has full-blown tetanus and is on a ventilator. We have paralyzed his diaphragm with curare to override the muscle spasms, and so we must fog his mind with a cocktail of drugs. We take excellent care of his body and read to him when we can. If the unit gets busy we play audiotapes for him, mostly about American history. Weeks later when the tetanus has run its course and we wake him up, he is convinced that FDR is president. Otherwise, he is fine.