How Meetings Harm Well-Being

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5. My most miserable rotation in nursing school was the psych rotation. Meetings, meetings, meetings.

This was 1973. I was assigned to the unit that allowed some patients to leave during the day for work. There were meetings all day long - doctor-nurse team mtg, nurse team mtg, nurse-patient team mtg, doctor-nurse-patient team mtg. There never seemed to be an agenda, and these meetings were boring as hell.

One funny story from one of the doctor-nurse-patient mtgs. An older woman was complaining about how unfairly she had been treated by a department store which had refused to let her return a girdle she had worn. She went on and on and on about this at the meeting, and kept talking about how she had "...Luxed it out" before attempting the return. One of the young residents was sure he was on to some valuable clue to her distress because of the term "Lux." He didn't realize that Lux was the name of a brand of laundry detergent, and that all the woman was saying was that she had washed the girdle.