The scenario as outlined in the last several posts was not an exercise in catharsis, but, rather, was to, by way of personalization, to illustrate just why someone might be in need of an advocate, a navigator, someone to represent their interests in the storm of modern medicine. Staff is at a premium, there remains…
Home again, home again, but still answer-less. Please remember that this is with us hooting and hollering and hand-waving and asking for help. But still, we fell into algorithm after algorithm after algorithm. To be sure, his symptoms would come and go, but most folks become uncomfortable witnessing their loved-ones heaving for breath after a…
Into the bowels of the beast, short-staffed, patients extending into hallways, COVID cases ramping back up- we were fortunate to be placed in a room shortly upon arrival, whereupon we sat. We sat some more. Henceforth, we sat. We received excellent, empathetic care, but sit we did. Ultimately, another chest XR suggested a pneumonia- they…
