Help Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. However, a student nurse found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, insisting didn't need my help to leave the hospital. After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly agreed to let the nurse wheel him to the elevator. On the way down she asked him if his wife was meeting him. βI don't know,β he said. βShe's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.β