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Title Byline EDITOR'S PAGE 1 0 O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 4 Hostility: Healthcare's Huge Cultural Problem It's truly sad when your reward for sharing is petty lateral violence. Y ou may recall the ring-removal tip in our September issue ("Ideas That Work," page 12). Genevieve Holody, RN, a PACU nurse and educator at the Buffalo Surgery Center in Amherst, N.Y., shared the practical pearl along with some great photos. Maybe it was news to you, maybe it wasn't: Slide a rubber tourni- quet and a little lubricant under a stubborn ring, and it slides right off. "It saves a lot of awkward cuts and your patients will love you for saving that very sentimental piece of jewel- ry," wrote Ms. Holody, 45, a nurse for 23 years. Like cockroaches, the critics came crawling out of the woodwork soon after we published her 1-paragraph tip. Lest we forget the reputa- tion that nursing has for eating its young, Ms. Holody was the victim of ugly cyberbullying from our readers. She says she received 14 e-mails to her work account dismissing her idea as neither new nor novel — "Tourniquets? No. We use shoe strings or dental floss." — and a couple of comments on our website that reek of one-upmanship. "New, it is not. Also it is definitely not absolutely foolproof," read one. "Windex works just as well," read another. If this is the thanks you get for sharing, Ms. Holody, who considered changing her work e-mail address, doesn't plan to stick her neck out again anytime soon.

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