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Could arm chair detectives save our medical system?
I know a more robust system of advocates who were truly patient advocates would make a tremendous difference. The patient advocate who greets you or your loved one in the hospital to discuss your care is not working for you. She is working for the hospital to improve the profitability of the hospital and move you or your loved one to a secondary care facility as soon as possible to open up that bed for someone else while providing income to the other center which is part of the same organization.
Who in the system takes responsibility for making sure that you or your loved one is receiving optimal care? Not the doctor you have been seeing for years. He may not even have admitting privileges to the hospital he sends you to. You are at the mercy of the system and the basic sense of decency of their employees.