Healthcare in a state of crisis
Forget about the fact that a good portion of our society cannot afford healthcare – let’s focus on the fact that healthcare is in a state of crisis. Yesterday, Moosey accused me of being a perfectionist – well perhaps I do have high expectations when it comes to certain things – specifically, healthcare. Mom went in for her MRI and the woman left her in the machine for 3 hours!
What? Did she go get lunch or something? Was she flirting with one of the residents?
Mom said she was moaning because she was in pain from the position she was in and that after a while she said, “is anyone out there?”
I’m meanwhile in San Francisco while this is going on. After what I saw happen to my mother five years ago when she got sepsis while having a routine operation and was pretty much left for dead – every family member needs to be a patient advocate – and it seems not just for surgery, but for outpatient procedures like MRIs!