[PAR35]

In the mean time, you aren’t getting assistance in relieving yourself, you might not get pain medicine, you might end up with a staph infection, and an aide might end up with a letter in her personnel file.

[La Lydia]

You are a victim, I can tell, but you don't have to be. Everyone who goes to the hospital should have an advocate --a friend, family member, bouncer -- to run this kind of interference. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. What they absolutely hate is if you or your advocate makes a loud, very public scene about the lack of care, medicine, etc. You have to be a loud bitch or bastard, depending, if it is that kind of hospital, and so does your advocate. It doesn't hurt if the advocate is carrying a video camera and recording the conditions.