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Yeah, don't make it clear they're willing to burn the hospital down. Make it casually clear they are paying attention to and keeping records of your treatments, and you all believe fully that lawsuits are a fundamental part of maintaining care standards.
I wouldn't do that is my point. Don't antagonize the staff. Watch them carefully and get involved, ask questions, help etc. Its like calling a front line service rep for a big company and bitching at them, when they can actually help you with the issue by escalating or appealing.
But threatening lawsuits or whatever is a joke. I get patients and family like this all the time and they aren't helping themselves at all. it just makes me not even want to work with them. Some guy was trying to threaten me with a lawsuit the other day and i told him to call a lawyer if he wanted to and walked out and never went back into his room. And the other staff backed me up.
This is self righteous but short sighted.
No no, you don't pre-emptively threaten the lawsuits, you just casually make it clear you're paying attention and will have all the records that would make a lawsuit more of a problem if they cut any corners.
Lol sure do that. We don't care. You'll just piss us off and the reality is the hospital deals with this constantly. Your best bet is to work with the staff as best you can and be vigilant to stop mistakes.
I've heard it all and its like when you get arrested and talk about your rights. The system doesn't care.
Yeah you shouldn't care, that's the point. I feel like you are entirely missing my point.
If you want marginally better care from medical professionals who are already doing their job, be helpful and friendly. And if you want borderline negligent doctors to wake up, be conspicuously observant and inquiring. They're not even mutually exclusive, you can do both at once. It seems you think my advice is walking in the door going "I could sue you!", it's not, its about not having them think they're just working in a bubble with no immediate oversight that lets them fudge the details if they had to justify themselves retroactively.
Only a weird egoist with a god complex would be offended by people watching him work on their family member with a small modicum of concern.