The end of the year is now in sight and several holidays are nearing. Thoughts turn to presents, celebrations, and reunions with family and friends. What happens when the holidays are celebrated in a psychiatric hospital?
This is not a “health care election,” except, of course, for the impact abortion will have on voting and turnout, whatever the outcome on November 5.
But health care has played a role in the campaign and the election in the following significant ways.
To suggest patients can influence the machine that drives modern healthcare is naïve and indicative of a flawed understanding of the realities of the industry