- Lack of any low-intensity monitored recovery option. If the kid could just have been sent home to a traditional worrying mother, who'd been told to watch for certain warning signs - then he very likely would have lived.
- Critical shortages of front-line medical staff. (ER nurses especially noted here. But a dishonorable mention to the computer systems that the residents were fighting against.)
- However short our medical system might be on front-line resources to treat patients needing care - once it's lawsuit time, resources seem plentiful.
I don't quite understand your third problem. I also don't think the shortage of ER nurses necessarily contributed, as clearly the doctors and the friend thought he was well enough to go home. Definitely agree with the first problem though. We put our kids through a lot of risk by sending them to interstate college...
- Lack of any low-intensity monitored recovery option. If the kid could just have been sent home to a traditional worrying mother, who'd been told to watch for certain warning signs - then he very likely would have lived.
- Critical shortages of front-line medical staff. (ER nurses especially noted here. But a dishonorable mention to the computer systems that the residents were fighting against.)
- However short our medical system might be on front-line resources to treat patients needing care - once it's lawsuit time, resources seem plentiful.