# Who Are The People In Your Neighborhood (Hospital)?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood-hospital/697021>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 31, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood-hospital/697021 "2014-08-31T00:38:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood-hospital/697021/41 "2014-09-04T23:38:47Z")

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In the local hospital, joint replacement patients go through a what-to-expect pre-op class. The nurse running the class suggested making an offering to the nurses, and that chocolate is the ideal currency. _Of course,_ she was jesting, but I have to tell you it’s a good idea.

I had my wife go to Good’s, the local chocolatier, to get a nice box of butter cremes, half in dark chocolate and half in milk chocolate, gift-wrapped, to take to the nurses’ station on the 4th floor.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood-hospital/697021/42 "2014-09-05T17:40:21Z")

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Do hospitals have any kind of quality control in place, and if so, what role would that be? Case manager?

I ask because on two separate occasions, I’ve had them screw up medications when the lists were presented in very readable format to the doctor - who then botched the orders. This does not comfort me.

On a related question: I’ve heard there are panels that review outcomes to see if they were “appropriate” - e.g. John Doe came in with a hangnail and 48 hours later he was dead, that kind of thing might go up before a board (whereas someone who fell 50 feet and died after 48 hours in the ICU would generally need little discussion).

Are there in fact such panels? If so, what causes a case to be brought up before one?

Presumably if I’d died due to failure to give me my medication, that might have gone up before such a panel, though at that point I’d be beyond caring!!

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