50 Secrets Hospitals Don’t Want to Tell You (But Every Patient Should Know)

1. Pick a Teaching Hospital

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9. Administrators Make Big Bucks

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14. Specialists Quietly Pad Your Bill

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18. Second-Guess Tests

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25. VIP Patients Can Affect Your Care

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29. Managed-Care Companies Dominate Our Time

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32. Bring Your Own Toiletries

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36. We Can Monitor You From a Distance

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38. Stay With Your Loved Ones

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42. Go Ahead, Hydrate Before Surgery

Many hospitals contend no celebration or eating after midnight a day before your medicine since it’s some-more available for them. But that means patients might uncover adult uncomfortable, dehydrated, and starving, generally for afternoon surgery. The latest American Society of Anesthesiologists discipline are some-more nuanced: no boiled or greasy dishes for 8 hours before your medicine and no food during all for 6 hours. Clear liquids, including water, fruit juices but pulp, soda, Gatorade, and black coffee, might be consumed adult to dual hours beforehand. —Cynthia Wong, MD, an anesthesiologist during University of Iowa Healthcare  

43. Too Much Rest Could Impede Recovery

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48. Try to Be Patient In a ER

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50 Secrets Hospitals Don’t Want to Tell You (But Every Patient Should Know)

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