Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when she slipped and fell on a patch of black ice.
Pain shot through her left knee and ankle. After summoning her husband on her phone, with difficulty she made it back to the house.
And then began the runaround that
The toll the American health care system extracts is, in some respects, the price of extraordinary progress in medicine, but is also evidence of the poor fit between older adults’ capacities and the health care system’s demands.
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The toll the American health care system extracts is, in some respects, the price of extraordinary progress in medicine, but is also evidence of the poor fit between older adults’ capacities and the health care system’s demands.