Ask What Is Going To Be Done
The surgeon who performed the best in our complication rate analysis said he and his partner drape their patients, do the whole operation, and close the incision themselves. He said, “I just know nobody is going to do it as carefully as I’m going to.”  Check whether your doctor will be doing your entire procedure and whether she will do your follow-up care.
Nurses Are Human.. They Get Overwhelmed Too
Hospitals often force nurses to handle more patients than they should—even though studies show if your nurse is responsible for fewer patients, they have better outcomes. California is the only state with hospital-wide minimum nurse-patient staffing ratios. Researcher Linda Aiken at the University of Pennsylvania found that each extra patient a nurse has above an established nurse-patient ratio made it 7 percent more likely that one of those patients would die.
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