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Your Patient Suffered an Electric Shock on a Construction Site

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Your patient suffered an electric shock on a construction site. His coworkers tell you that he was briefly unresponsive, but now he is alert and oriented and does not want to go to the hospital. You should


A) ask his coworkers to monitor him and call 911 if he becomes ill.
B) tell him that he may have internal damage that needs to be assessed at the hospital.
C) tell him that very few people survive electrical burns without hospital treatment.
D) carefully document his refusal of care.

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