My Father Signed a DNR to Save Money While I Was Unconscious in the ICU — He Didn’t Expect Me to Wake Up

me later. Instead, she did something better. She opened my employee file.

Every nurse at St. Catherine’s fills out an emergency packet during onboarding—contact information, insurance, allergies, and a healthcare proxy designation. Most people skip that last section. I hadn’t. Three years earlier, I’d signed my healthcare proxy over to Deborah Owens,continue reading …