Becker's Healthcare February 17, 2020
I spent an entire morning a few weeks ago shuttling CDs between my father’s cardiologists as his care was being transferred from one hospital to another.
Like many others in the so-called “sandwich generation,” I’m caring for an aging parent as well as my children. It’s a lot for anyone to manage, even a physician like me who knows (as much as it’s knowable) how the health system works. My father has had one cardiac surgery and is now preparing for another. He has had numerous radiology and cardiology imaging studies, and it has fallen on me to play courier, carrying the antiquated disks containing my father’s scans back and forth between providers.
Scenes like this play out thousands of...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor