My parents always warned me, based on their own experience, that you need a healthy family member watching doctors and nurses like a hawk at all times, looking

My parents always warned me, based on their own experience, that you need a healthy family member watching doctors and nurses like a hawk at all times, looking into the drugs and dosages they're prescribing, and even doing work on diagnoses, to make sure they don't kill you, and that it was extremely risky not to have a competent, dedicated advocate of this sort around. I was always a little skeptical of this. Now that I've had a little more experience with doctors and hospitals, I'd say they were spot-on.