Comment by georgeburdell

I’m not even a few screens into this and I’m already nodding my head in agreement. Having parents of the age where hospital trips are now a yearly occurrence at least, the level of care a patient gets is so much better if relatives are involved and knowledgeable. The medical system does not give a shit about you, they just want to make sure you don’t die in their care.

My sister is a hospital doctor and was remotely checking in with my dad’s care team every shift when he got sepsis after TWO different ERs missed pneumonia even with chest Xrays. Mistakes she corrected included getting him off the ventilator after the need had passed and also preventing him from being discharged directly home — instead he went to a rehab facility for 2 weeks. When I arrived after a few days in rehab he would barely stay awake long enough to eat. He went on to make a full recovery.