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

a Do Not Resuscitate order to prevent, the surgery that happened anyway because a nurse named Pat Walsh had looked harder at my employee file than my own father had ever looked at me.

My name is Wendy Thomas. I’m twenty-nine years old, and I’m a registered nurse at St. Catherine’s Hospital near Philadelphia. For three weeks, I was also a patient there,continue reading …