My Surgeon Husband Worked Five Floors Below Me While I Fought Sepsis for 30 Days—When He Said, “I Was Too Busy,” I Put My Wedding Ring on the Hospital Report He Never Knew I Had
A formal patient-experience grievance.
Not:
Punish my husband.
My concern was broader.
Why had my own hospital care team known my spouse worked in the building, known I was critically ill, documented his absence, and still left me believing his program absolutely prohibited contact?
The response was not:
We are responsible for your marriage.
Of course not.