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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (6306)	11/30/1999 12:06:00 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 7442

That is sad, Blue...It's really one thing to have an "accident"~ but it's entirely another thing to cover it up... While thinking of this subject, one thing I'd like to do if I had lots of time and money....I think a medical patient advocate should be available...right now, if an insurance company decides the patient should go home, generally that is what happens. If that patient has an 'event' at home, they come back in and it is another stay in the hospital.....but if that patient falls down stairs because he/she is still medicated, or should have been under medical supervision, and dies.....the death record will show a fall as cause of death, rather than what the underlying cause really was. I think there should be a central reporting place for anything like this....right now, the only people who really know, and care for that matter, is the patient's family, friends, and Doctor. KLP