Danya had a patient that was so scared of IV's and refused to be touched without medication to relax. Danya tried talking to the patient first, very patiently, but the patient kept refusing the IV without the medication. The problem was that the patient has not signed consent yet, so relaxing medications could not be given, and the surgeon was still in the OR doing a previous case.

Danya went out of her way, talked to the anesthesiologist, and discussed what could be done about the patient's fear of IVs. Per the anesthesiologist, medications could be given only if consent was signed. Danya went and talked to the surgeon to consent the patient. She got the surgical team to send a resident doctor to the room to consent the patient, and the anesthesia team to go to the room to explain the anesthesia procedure. When everything was done, Valium was given to the patient and so the patient relaxed and the IV was started. I admired the way she advocated for the patient, stopping at nothing to safely break the status quo just so the patient's needs could be met.