Oftentimes when Mary Tornabene, RN, FNP, sees a patient for the first time, the entire visit and exam take place on the floor.
It's not that her facility lacks a proper exam table or chairs, instead Tornabene's unique patients are more comfortable on the ground — a cultural trait most Americans might consider peculiar.
But many of the foreign patients visiting Chicago's Rogers Park-based Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture identify the floor as comfortable and safe, unlike an exam table, which might resemble the platform on which they were tortured.
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