When when one of my parents had a stroke years ago, we spent a week in the ICU. It was a special ICU for stroke victims. The care and staff were exceptional. We

When when one of my parents had a stroke years ago, we spent a week in the ICU. It was a special ICU for stroke victims. The care and staff were exceptional. We were lucky such an ICU was in our area. On the other hand, subsequent hospital visits (non-ICU) were a cluster fuck. Noise, lights on, nurses constantly waking my parent up, could-care-less doctors, etc. And getting healthy enough to be transferred to an extended care facility was a shit show. It's was like the hospital but worse. Both experience seemed to have little to do with health and recovery. My point is, the article author is in for a shock once his dad gets out of the ICU and into the "general population". I can't imagine that's going to be better than the ICU. I hope I'm mistaken. My take away from this experience is: 1) Make choices that maximize your health the best you can. 2) If you can, be rich - like fuck you money rich. The kind of rich where your "general population" hospital experience will be like being in the ICU.