MERCED, Calif. — The patient in Room 328 had diabetes and hypertension.

发自加州默塞德—— 328房间的病人患有糖尿病和高血压。

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In the room, a patient, suffering from cancer, lies on a table.

房间里，一位患癌症的病人躺在桌子上。

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He is too busy saving a dying patient in the operation room.

他正忙着抢救手术室里一个垂死的病人。

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"One of the key elements here was flattening the hierarchy in the operating room so that everybody, the scrub tech,the nurse, the surgeon,the anesthesiologist, whomever it is in the operating room could bring up any concerns they had about the patient."

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And, if possible, when it's time for surgery, the patient's sibling(s) take the patient to the operating room in a large red wagon filled with his or her toys.

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She's controlling a million-dollar ultrasound machine that is heating up and destroying jelly-bean-size sections of a fibroid tumor that has caused the patient in the next room serious discomfort for ten years.

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But in some ways the changes ignored the elephant in the room: the changing nature of the patient population.

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