Sounds like her thing, but we both thought it was great. They could have phone calls too from a public phone, unlimited smoke breaks, and all the juice and snacks they wanted. They don't want people from the outside having undo influence upon the patients, so contact is limited, and outside items can cause a self harm / contraband risk. I was actually surprised she could have visitors at all. And I don't remember if they had a policy about fraternization at that place, but I've heard the patients tend to hook up. Pretty wild & crazy place with interesting people.

Jail is a lot less fun, and I imagine prison even less so, but even jail is a pretty interesting experience. You meet a lot of interesting people there too.

Or they give you fent until you have a heart attack, or push Vancomycin until your veins are shot. My one grandfather was given the bottle of morphine and told to use as much as he wanted. My other grandfather, grandmother, and my friend Otter all died in suspiciously timely manners to not to have been helped along.

We have a massively overly optimistic view of the abilities of medical field. It's not an accident. Shows like M*A*S*H (which was used to bring the unsavory niche field of psychology to prominence) and ER, Chicago Hope, House, etc. Those were propaganda tools to elevate the field within the general public's estimation. They never were as good as people were led to believe.

These days though, I don't know if you noticed, the pharmaceutical industry has pretty already discovered all the obvious effective medications. The new drugs don't work better, have more side effects, and they're prescribed because they're more profitable. And doctors have been going along with that anyways for the last 50 years or so.

I have been scrambling to get heart medications, every month. Every month it is a struggle. It shouldn't be this hard, but they can't even do simple things right. It's just really obvious now.