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My Mother And The Medical Care Ad-Hoc-Racy

It was a phone call children dread. "Mom’s fallen," said my sister. "She’s in the emergency room at the hospital with a badly broken left leg. Her left shoulder and wrist are broken, too." My mother is an eighty-eight-year-old mentally alert widow who is fiercely independent and lives alone in an eldercare complex. She had tripped and fallen hard while leaving a "Friends of the Columbia River Gorge" evening meeting at a colleague’s home in Portland, Oregon. She waited thirty minutes for the ambulance and several hours in the emergency room before she was admitted for surgical repair of her . . . [Full Text of this Article]

A Complex Web Of Care

 

Too Many Opportunities For Disaster

 

Ways To Do Better

 

Some Easily Made Improvements

 

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