I recently cared for a 70-year-old man in the resuscitation bay of my hospital’s emergency department. His blood pressure was low, his skin mottled, his stench foul. Ambulance personnel told us he was “found down” by a neighbor. His toes were infected—red, swollen and draining. His records from a hospital stay a few weeks earlier showed that he had signed out against medical...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 09, 2020 19:52 UTC