Coverage for Mastectomy Hospitalization Bill in Congress

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Here in Oz I look after patients who are sent home early from hospital keep

hospital stays to a minimum - we have so much Golden Staph (Multy/Methacillin

Resistant Staph Aureus or MRSA) here in many of the hospitals that patients are

safer in their own homes - here they get daily

nursing visits for as long as they need it to dress their wounds or check their

drain tubes if any - no one os sent home without medical and nursing support

and they would also get help in the home - like housekeeping assistance -

usually for one or two hours a week for a month . . . . .

 

Jane in Oz

 

<barobinson66

 

 

>I work in a hospital. My hospital sends home mastectomy patients within 24

>hours after surgery, with drainage tubes still attached. As far as I am

>aware, we've had no patients return with serious problems. But that's not

>the point. This is standard procedure in hospitals now, and it just seems

>inhumane. Especially for those women who live alone and have no one to

>care for them in the first few days after surgery. I can't imagine it

>becoming an out-patient procedure.