35. Hospitals Don't Talk to Each Other. Here Are 3 Things to Do.

This week my mom woke up in the middle of the night with her heart fluttering, and we ended up in the ER. She's okay now, but sitting in that waiting room, I learned something that honestly shocked me. I always assumed that once your parent walks into a hospital, all their records just show up. Every doctor sees everything. It's all connected. That is not true, not even close, and if you don't know it yet, you need to before you're standing where I was standing.

In this episode I walk through exactly what happened that night, why even hospitals in the same system down the street from each other can't always see the full picture, and what that means for the medications and tests your parent ends up getting while doctors are working with half the story. Then I give you three things you can do right now, before your own middle-of-the-night moment, so you're never caught standing there blank when it matters most.

None of us can control how disconnected the healthcare system is. But we can control what we walk in the door with. That's the part that's actually in your hands, and that's what today is about, giving you back a little bit of that control before you need it.

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