In the heart and in spirit
This last month was tough. I lost my mother. My father lost his wife of 63 years. My siblings lost their mother. We all lost her, and it will always be a sad event. She had a long hard year, full of what I am calling horrible badly done, and disjointed "White Man Medicine". So many pharmaceuticals, given by different doctors. with no coordination, no conversions between the various physicians, and several stays in the local hospital where her primary care physician was not even allowed to come see her. Only what they call Hospitalists. And a different one each time. A hell of a way to treat a frail almost 90 year old diabetic who had had a stroke. Whose primary care physician thought it was fine to prescribe an off label use for an anti-depressant. To calm down her bladder. As she was having a huge issue with urgency, but often didn't have to go. Or then it would be a...