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Creole Gumbo's avatar

Amazing how U of M ovid policy is just the opposite of this.

My husband was hospitalized for a non-Covid issue in 2021. He was initially sent to a semi private room with the other bed vacant. The second day my daughter and I were denied the right to visit him because they could not allow more than one visitor per day and three people would not be allowed in the same room. We got by that when my daughter told them that she was a Health Care Attorney and that if they did not allow her to see her father she would file suit against the security guard and the institution within an hour. They allowed her in.

BUT 6 doctors came into the room when I was with my husband.

AND on the second day they had placed another patient into the same room. That man had a urinary tract infection, was obese, and snored with saliva spewing from his open mouth about 5' away from my husband. But what happened to not allowing 3 people in the same room??? I requested that my husband be placed into a private room as he had no infection of ant kind and covid or not they should not have placed an infected patient 5' away from him.

BUT the head nurse then went into my husband's room to attempt to convince him that he did not want a private room. SHE WANTED HIM IN THE SAME ROOM WITH AN INFECTED PATIENT. Fortunately my daughter set the situation straight by telling them that she was a lawyer and would sue them if they did not give him a private room as ordered by his doctor.

IN ADDITION TO THAT when he was in the ER awaiting a bed I was asked by 5 members of their Customer Relations department if I was speaking for my husband as he was non compos mentis upon admission. I swore that I was the person to make decisions for him. BUT no sooner than I did that they brought in a 6'2" or more security guard to stand in front of me with folded arms commanding that I leave my husband alone in the ER. I was clearly being threatened and forced to leave when he was most in need of protection. HOW CAN I SPEAK FOR HIM IF I WAS NOT ALLOWED TO BE THERE? If some idiot came in and asked hiim to identify himself before administering a drug he would not have been able to protect himself by saying "No that is not me."

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN shows no respect for people who come there for help.

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Wes Alexander's avatar

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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