MIAMI-DADE, FL - When a family member or a dear friend is sick, even worse, when it's an emergency and you have to rush to the hospital with said family member or friend, stress and despair start to reign your life, hopefully for a few days, unfortunately it usually lasts a lot more, directly proportionate with the age and previous health conditions of the patient.
It's disheartening enough being in such position when you have to take care of your elderly, injured, family member or friend; but if on top of that the personnel at the hospital, the bureaucracy, the irregularities of different departments of the health center flourish during that time, things get really disturbing.
Not only the fact that your family member is suffering, but for you having to endure poor performance of some of the nurses, or directors, or chiefs of department, or any other people involved in the recovering of your loved one, the situation tends to be, at times, unbearable.
My experience has been every time I have spent some time either on the hospital bed or being company of someone else, that we're going to find people from every part of the spectrum: great professional, others than suck, great facilities, other things not that great; amazing organization, other times, not that much.
The point I try to make is no matter where or when you get to a health center, you have two options: one, pick a fight with every other person you encounter, no matter if that person is a janitor or a neurosurgeon; a nurse, or a physical therapist.
The other option would be to focus on the good people (that you indeed will find) and work things around if you find them uncomfortable or even in detriment, according to your assessment of the circumstances, of the health of either you or the person you're taking care of.
In the meantime, do something useful, read a book or do some research online, while waiting in the cafeteria. After that, entertain yourself with some fun and don't forget to be happy!
Written by Ricardo Martinez
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