title: ['House of cards'].
abstract: A medical student on rotations with a weekend job in a nursing home describes the case of a 72-year-old woman in a rehabilitation unit. While caring for the woman, a conversation began in which the woman described a chain of events that occurred as a result of her medical condition. What started with a wound infection after a mastectomy ended with her husband being placed in a psychogeriatric facility. It is a clear demonstration of the direct and indirect consequences that medical interventions may have.
authors.affiliation: Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden. s.r.van.beek@umail.leidenuniv.nl
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: van Beek
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009735:Nursing Homes; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers; D012944:Social Support