7.
“An impending sense of doom or unshakeable sense of ‘not right-ness.’ It’s almost always a patient’s body knowing something before we pick it up externally. There’s always a reason, and usually something underlying to address.”
“I had a woman who gave birth and mentioned this unshakable bad feeling. Her post-C-section pain quickly became so severe that her heart rate and blood pressure kept dropping. By the end of my shift, she was back in the OR, having liters of blood clots evacuated from her belly and multiple transfusions.”