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7:21am July 5, 2014
Anonymous asked: Do you like your helpers/nurses/doctors?

Mostly, yes.

The current set of caregivers who come in to help me do most of the day-to-day stuff are excellent people.  They’re good at their jobs but they’re also just people I like being around.

The people who come to do personal care range from excellent to meh, but I only see them for a much briefer part of the day, so as long as they’re not grossly incompetent it doesn’t matter.

My main doctor is amazing, and so are his nurses.  My other doctors range from good to great for the most part, with a few exceptions.

When I’m actually in the hospital for an inpatient stay, it’s a completely mixed bag.  On average I end up liking nurses better than doctors (they generally deal more with patients, and understand us better), but it’s very individual who I like and why.  I can’t generalize too much because the inpatient hospital has a wide range from super-competent all the way through down to “how is it that this person hasn’t gotten sued out of the business, for repeated malpractice?”