I sympathize with the lack of information and the seeming "testing". Pain makes all of that so much worse. My cynical side wonders if the hospital became more motivated to move up your surgery date because they needed the bed.
I always want more information than I'm given, whether about scheduling or aftercare or etiology or what-have-you. Too often it seems medical providers hoard information and give it out to patients in miserly dribs and drabs. Over the years I've thought about a lot of reasons why this is, and only one theory keeps fitting my observations: they are quite simply way too busy to do anything else.
That's a little scary. If they're this busy now, how busy will they be in a few decades, when we're even better at keeping high-maintenance people alive? How busy will they be when I'm that high-maintenance patient and I really need them?
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I always want more information than I'm given, whether about scheduling or aftercare or etiology or what-have-you. Too often it seems medical providers hoard information and give it out to patients in miserly dribs and drabs. Over the years I've thought about a lot of reasons why this is, and only one theory keeps fitting my observations: they are quite simply way too busy to do anything else.
That's a little scary. If they're this busy now, how busy will they be in a few decades, when we're even better at keeping high-maintenance people alive? How busy will they be when I'm that high-maintenance patient and I really need them?