> staff physicians who never, ever appear on site, yet who collects a paycheck by prescribing tranquilizing drugs for any resident at the facility's request, al

> staff physicians who never, ever appear on site, yet who collects a paycheck by prescribing tranquilizing drugs for any resident at the facility's request, all sight unseen My mother and her siblings have had EXACTLY this experience with my grandfather – and they've had prior experience choosing nursing homes. It's horrible. They dope him up on who knows what medications for perceived illnesses without consulting family. Thank goodness my attentive and no-bullshit aunt discovered they were medicating him for "pneumonia" and "congestive heart failure" prescribed by a call-in quack for what turned out to be a bit of aspirated fluid. She forced them to get him off the meds and he returned to normal (modulo Alzheimer's) in days. The whole industry is based around appearing like they're doing something to oblivious or disinterested families (which unfortunately exist), while doping their helpless patients into a slow meaningless death. There are good individuals (my folks made sure to make ties with them, else my grandfather would quite literally have died due to negligence by now), but the industry as a whole is rotten.