Whenever you need to be hospitalized, gather your people around you. Be they friends relatives, co-workers, but gather the people you trust to be around you, to surround you and stay near you, so that the hospital staff and doctors are aware of them. The only necessity of the relationship is that you trust them and they trust you. When they need to be hospitalized, you will go with them and look out for their best interests as they will look out for yours.
I am not talking about money or possessions. I am talking recovery and health. The goal is to survive as much intact as possible to be discharged from the hospital with the best chance of recovering optimum health. Your people watch out for you so you recover and you will do the same for them. It's not that I don't trust modern health-care, mind you (I've worked in a hospital for 27 years.), but right now, today, health-care is more about generating revenue than caring about patients.
