Spud is familiar with the story of Pete Wilson, a local TV anchor and radio talk show host who went into the hospital for what was considered routine hip replacement surgery. Wilson, who was 62, died of a heart attack!

All the nursing staff does is sit around at their computers entering info. Yet they are constantly asking my sister and myself questions, re: her medical history, medications, WHAT MODEL PACEMAKER SHE HAS, etc. But everything pertaining to her has been performed at that very hospital! What is it; do they not know how to retrieve information once it’s entered? Or are they really sitting around reading blogs or doing Sudoku puzzles?

Anyway, I see first hand how something could go drastically wrong. And as is the case with Beck, this hospital is in a relatively “good” area. I feel bad for any patient who does not have vigilant family members present, because these hospital people do not seem to be looking out for their patients at all!