Hospital nightmare in Venice
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>> Or learn Italian. You had three weeks in bed after all.<<
Or learn to be a doctor. It's not as if you had anything better to do. OK, that's farfetched. How about just a physician's assistant?
Or learn to be a doctor. It's not as if you had anything better to do. OK, that's farfetched. How about just a physician's assistant?
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<A miracle. In the United States it is a struggle to have the insurance approve for 1 day.>
Be careful what you wish for, lol. Three weeks in a hospital, any hospital, is a nightmare--still exempting that Japanese one massimop was in, but that's the exception that proves the rule.
I don't know anything about the OP's type of fracture, but I know I would rather recuperate at home. I had to have emergency surgery a couple of years ago and went home exactly 24 hours after walking into the ER, and was grateful to do so.
OTOH, it's funny to me that Americans who are outraged that Italian hospitals require one to bring pj's and cutlery, are okay with caring for a semi-invalid at home under the US system, which I agree would never let a person with a broken leg stay in hospital for three weeks.
Be careful what you wish for, lol. Three weeks in a hospital, any hospital, is a nightmare--still exempting that Japanese one massimop was in, but that's the exception that proves the rule.
I don't know anything about the OP's type of fracture, but I know I would rather recuperate at home. I had to have emergency surgery a couple of years ago and went home exactly 24 hours after walking into the ER, and was grateful to do so.
OTOH, it's funny to me that Americans who are outraged that Italian hospitals require one to bring pj's and cutlery, are okay with caring for a semi-invalid at home under the US system, which I agree would never let a person with a broken leg stay in hospital for three weeks.
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<i><font color=#555555>"It is incredible that they let you stay in the hospital for three weeks and let you recover. A miracle."</font></i>
I don't see the miracle, at all. Everyone in health care knows the last place you want to be for an extended period of time is a hospital. A long-term stay is fraught with danger. Patients who don't <b>need</b> to be in a hospital setting should do everything they can to get out of one as soon as they can. It is much safer and far more productive to recuperate at home when that is possible.
I don't see the miracle, at all. Everyone in health care knows the last place you want to be for an extended period of time is a hospital. A long-term stay is fraught with danger. Patients who don't <b>need</b> to be in a hospital setting should do everything they can to get out of one as soon as they can. It is much safer and far more productive to recuperate at home when that is possible.
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