To the Editor:

The nurses of the Selma, Ala., Vaughan Regional Medical Center Hospital are what nurses are supposed to be: Kind, caring, and compassionate.

On the other hand, some of Selma’s doctors leave a lot to be desired in some cases …

For instance: They write orders for their patients, then leave the floor before signing off on these orders – thereby leaving both nurses and patients in limbo when they suddenly remember they have business elsewhere!

This is patently unfair to both the patient – who must await the doctor’s wandering memory – and the nursing staff, which must put up with patients who are going to believe – WRONGLY – that the nurses are holding up their care!

Doctors!

Wake up!! You are being unfair to your patients and your staff …!!!

(I speak from experience, having just come home from a stay at the Vaughan … where the nurses could not have been more caring … and where in several cases I had to wait hours for a doctor to sign off on orders he had given his staff for palliative care for me!

This was stressing to the Max and I didn’t appreciate it at all!)

Mrs. Tevya K. Baker