One Significant Way to Lower Healthcare Costs: Listen to Patients (Especially, Women)

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When patients’ complaints are not taken seriously or in a timely manner, it causes untold suffering. It’s also an inefficient use of hospital resources and healthcare dollars. We need to do better — doctors need to do better. Nurses can, should, and have stepped up for patients too ill to self-advocate. But we could save a lot of time and money…