T.R. Healy describes a nightmarish medical encounter in this vignette. As physicians and care givers, it is hard to read; but, at the same time, it is important. Sadly, occurrences such as this happen often.
The poet, Bobbie Burns, expressed this well in "To a Louse:"
O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An foolish notion...
T.R. Healy "gifts" us with a story that does just this: Download in_a_lousy_place.pdf