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>Despite his reputation, Dr. Lown was treated like just another widget on the hospital’s conveyor belt. “Each day, one person on the medical team would say one
by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
>Despite his reputation, Dr. Lown was treated like just another widget on the hospital’s conveyor belt. “Each day, one person on the medical team would say one thing in the morning, and by the afternoon the plan had changed,” he later told me. “I always was the last to know what exactly was going on, and my opinion hardly mattered.”
yes, this is what it is like to be a patient at a hospital these days. And good luck if the patient wants to speak to a physician. and don't ever go to a teaching hospital if you have the choice. some intern will have the brilliant idea to adjust every medication you are taking.
- Spooky23 9y agoYou have to bring an advocate who is able to sniff out bullshit, establish rapport with senior nursing staff and be a pushy asshole when necessary. A modern hospital is a zero trust environment.
- Parcissons 9y agoOh, the old ones where too - the stories just never circulated. Someone i know worked as a surgery nurse - by now almost 40 years ago. The surgeon was quite choleric - and once, when a cotton -wad was unaccounted for threw a sewn off hip joint twoards those who dared to assist him. All praise be upon the anaesthetist.