Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

He has several serious, and chronic, conditions which require monitoring. We had doctors thrown at us who knew nothing about his (very complicated) health history. Though his primary insisted she was monitoring from afar, it didn't feel like it. Luckily, we had our kidney doctor involved. He was at the hospital every day, and since he is highly respected, they listened to him in the end.

Our interaction with the surgeon was quite bizarre, IMO. He declined to operate (gall bladder), and while I was fine with that opinion, he kept stopping by my husband's room and telling him, in effect, "Don't believe what anybody tells you. I'm right." A friend suggested maybe it was a Medicare thing: the longer he stayed involved the more money he made. The surgeons I've dealt with in the past were far too busy to come to patients' room, particularly when they weren't really patients. Weird.

My sympathies. Hospitals are the eighth circle of hell these days.