IN HONOR OF

ELMA BRADY PAGE

On Sunday Morning, November 11, 2001, my mother, Elma Brady Page, was pronounced dead.  She had been taken to the hospital on Friday, November 9, 2001.  To insure that her Passing was not in vain, I offer the following suggestions to persons who find it necessary to be admitted to a hospital:

 1.  Find a competent Christian doctor (or a doctor that fully subscribes to [and follows] Christian principles).

 2.  Make sure your doctor is the admitting physician.  (Otherwise, carefully evaluate the admitting and treating physician[s]).

 3.  Make sure the admitting physician is FULLY aware of the medical history of the patient.

 4.  Make sure the admitting physician and treating physician(s) seriously study and evaluate the medical history of the patient.

 5.  Make sure the admitting and treating physicians are FULLY willing to receive patient history, patient sensitivity and tolerance information, and updated information/data from the patient's regular care-giving family member, nurse, etc.

 6.  Make sure the treating physician(s) have in place a feedback system so that information given to nurses and others on duty can easily come to the attention of the treating physician(s).  This may be a simple online email process (the doctor may read it at his/her earliest convenience).   Poor hospital staff communication equals DANGER!!!

 7.  Be attentive to the attitudes of the hospital staff.  If the attitudes are not positive toward the patient and the patient's care-givers, the patient should (if at all reasonably possible) be properly checked out of that hospital and moved to a hospital where the attitudes are positive.

 8.  Be attentive to the hospital staff's willingness (or unwillingness) to answer questions.  If there is an unwillingness to answer reasonable questions, the patient is probably at risk of receiving inferior care and possibly in danger of loss of life.

 9.  Whenever you suspect a treatment being administered (or about to be administered) will harm the patient, INSIST on having a doctor review the treatment ( BEFORE IT IS ADMINISTERED) and again approve or disapprove its administration.

10.  If something seems wrong it may very well be.  Find out quickly and, when not satisfied, make proper arrangements to have patient checked out of that hospital and moved to a hospital where things are in proper order.

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     My mother did EVERYTHING  (every proper thing) she knew to do to help me.  Even after having become ill she would go out of her way to do things for me.  I love my mother (active, present [because I will always love her]) and I am now very satisfied with her efforts to be a good mother to me.

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