Reply #2: "I thought I'd found heaven"

[Cerridwen]

From the link:

Six weeks ago, I drank a lot of booze, took a lot of pills, and waited for it to all go away. Instead, I got very sick, and received a trip to a local (non-VA) hospital. There I was astonished to find that doctors did not treat patients as if they were lying sluts who'd asked to get raped. I found myself in tears because after two years it was the first time medical professionals had treated me with consideration and kindness. I don't have enough space for all the things they didn't do, the things to which I'd gotten accustomed from the VA. Instead, they jumped to get me options, asked me questions, and listened to my answers. They didn't argue with me. They were sympathetic. They were nice to me. They actually seemed to think they shouldn't injure me further. Worse yet, it never dawned on me that this was not unusual in medical professionals. I thought I'd found Heaven.

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I can't say anything else.