True Story: From Mother's Hospital at UAB, The Dark Side of Medicine

So, my mother, who is 68, has had 5 hip surgeries in the past 3 months.

She was supposed to come back to our pool house, where we have been taking care of her for the past 2 months, last Wednesday. She caught an infection, plus a blood clot, and internal bleeding, and after the latest surgery, ended up in the ICU where she caught "ICU Delirium", which apparently is common. We were unaware of this possibility, and she was on another planet for a couple of days. I began reading to her, and she "snapped out of it" within like 3 hours.

The people and specialists at UAB have been nothing short of angelic, until my wife suggested we request a visit with a psychiatric doctor, not that she has any symptoms, but that she has been through a lot and is emotional. The doctor in training, came in our room with a mask, of course, and talked with my mom for like 30 minutes. My mother was engaging, energetic, inquisitive, positive, etc. The doctor said, several times, that she rarely speaks with people like this, and she is happy to actually get to have a normal convo with someone.

Her head doctor, waddled in a couple hours later, and he reminded you of the guys you are warned about in middle school. Just a strange bird. He starts talking to my mother as if she is a toddler, and asking rudimentary questions. She answers, and they have a basic convo. His manner is weird, and he's one of those people that give you a bad vibe. He stated, "we don't know what the future holds, so just in case, we will prescribe you x and y just in case".

I was like, hold up. Have you read her chart? What were the results? She isn't depressed or unmotivated or anything.

He replied they were doing this for preventative measures, and just in case.

I asked, in an unpolite manner, if there was in case in which they would not have prescribed my mother psychotropic drugs.

They stammered, and they stammered, and I told him to GTFO. I am incredulous that these certified professionals first and only reaction/cure is drugs. It was a disgusting experience.


TL;DR: Quack docs are quacks. Doctors should teach nutrition not pharmaceutical addiction.