Death By Hospital: Is it Avoidable?
Part Two of a Series

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 13, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/373/death-by-hospital-is-it-avoidable

Excerpt:

On November 11, 2008, I published an account of my own recent experience in an American hospital titled: Every Hospital Patient Has a Story: The Decline of Compassionate Care giving in American Hospitals. I have gotten many thoughtful responses from readers which will comprise a future article. But first, I want to place the care giving issue in perspective.

While hospital stays may be traumatic, most of us come out cured and alive. Some of us do not.

For years, politicians have been talking about universal health care–which I agree, we must have in America. According to one estimate, about 18,000 Americans may die each year because they are uninsured.

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