Now that the dust has settled around the discharge papers we can report the casualty count: Two medicines prescribed with no prescriptions; one medicine given to patient to take home to which patient is allergic; steroids prescribed by a doctor that didn't know patient was being discharged; and home instructions issued by another doctor that directly stated the opposite of what the general discharge instructions instructed. I'm going to have a talk with Methodist's administration very soon.
Mind you, we think Houston Methodist is a great hospital. It has great people who are competent and really care. All except whoever designed their patient-doctor relations protocol. We suspect that person was probably raised in a concentration camp or maybe got his GED behind the walls of a mental institution.
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