You've got that right, Ross. Much of the time with complicated cases, there are necessarily, way too many medical people involved, and they start to work against each other. To make matters worse, they don't communicate. I'm sure you've seen that as well, with yourself, and probably with Chris.
Everyone wants to do a good job (I think
), but what one wants will unravel the other's good work.
I wish there was something called a "complicated case manager" who would direct the whole scenario, but no, it goes on and on and gets a life of its own.
I think that is the exhausting thing about these situations. A lot of stupid stuff happens.
Here's something really stupid that I should have caught, but didn't. Joe has some stitches in his jugular vein area which should have been removed about a month ago in the hospital. The dressings they put on in dialysis covers them, so I didn't notice that they were still there until a couple of days ago. They are too healed in for me or the Visiting Nurses to remove. So he has to have a surgeon remove them
, I swear, you always hope for the best, but these things still happen.
Oh, well, he's home and getting better in spite of it all.
Perfection is in heaven, I guess.