hospital incompetence

To try to lighten this up a bit, here's a story from the Mardy history shelves:  In response to Martine Ehrenclou's wonderful piece about older patients in the hospital needing health advocates/helpers: I must have been "OLDER" five years ago when I had a hysterectomy because I needed an advocate!

I actually had one, a friend who was knowledgeable about hospitals and process and was a manager and could speak up and all the things I think a person ideally needs to have as 'soft skills' to navigate what I affectionately call 'the mangling medicine maze'.    read more »