Lessons
Lesson 1: It is safer to take planes than to stay at hospitals.
Just saw a patient infected with nosocomial pneumonia, again... think it's his second since admission. So he has to stay at this dangerous place longer so that he can recover (and then get infected again?...)
Lesson 2: Make sure you have a granddaughter if you're gonna make all your grandsons scholars.
Poor old patient, 90 plus years, has many children, scholarly grandsons, granddaughters and great grandchildren. Yet she's living alone cos the scholarly grandsons thought she can take care of herself.. even when she's 90. This left a grand SON-IN-LAW who runs the show by visting her, buying her food etc. Unfortunately, things still happened cos there's still long periods of time she's alone. So what happened? she fell and dislocated her shoulder. She's also getting depressed.
Lesson 3: The hospital: Easy to enter, hard to exit (sometimes)
Many examples, old folks require admission, get admitted then get stuck cos relatives either cannot decide where to put them up after discharge or feel that they know better than doctors that the patient is still sick...
What kind of son will i be?
Just saw a patient infected with nosocomial pneumonia, again... think it's his second since admission. So he has to stay at this dangerous place longer so that he can recover (and then get infected again?...)
Lesson 2: Make sure you have a granddaughter if you're gonna make all your grandsons scholars.
Poor old patient, 90 plus years, has many children, scholarly grandsons, granddaughters and great grandchildren. Yet she's living alone cos the scholarly grandsons thought she can take care of herself.. even when she's 90. This left a grand SON-IN-LAW who runs the show by visting her, buying her food etc. Unfortunately, things still happened cos there's still long periods of time she's alone. So what happened? she fell and dislocated her shoulder. She's also getting depressed.
Lesson 3: The hospital: Easy to enter, hard to exit (sometimes)
Many examples, old folks require admission, get admitted then get stuck cos relatives either cannot decide where to put them up after discharge or feel that they know better than doctors that the patient is still sick...
What kind of son will i be?
posted by KwangHow at
5:44 PM
1 Comments:
i've had a patient with 4 UTIs, 2 pneumonias and now got pTB. I've also seen patient's families deliberating requesting prolonged hospital stays just so that they don't have to take care of their father at home. of course, they don't pay the hospitals bills as well.
but on the bright side, i've seen patients whose families visit everyday and are geninuely concerned.
I'm sure you'll be a great son to your parents. I have no doubt.
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Wei Qiang, at 7:27 PM
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