Ryan

Review of Tennova

I'm not sure how to address this, so this will hav...

I'm not sure how to address this, so this will have to do in the meantime....

My mother had a stroke onroute to the hospital. I arrived and waited for someone to give me information on her condition. As I waited, one of her friends greeted me in the waiting room. We spoke as we awaited someone to come to speak with us.

I understand medical professionals are at hard work trying to save lives and are busy with such works.

What I didn't understand was when the time came, the woman working the desk that night called for anyone that could come to speak with doctors about my mother and give them information.

I sprang up and came to her, saying I was her son. For whatever amazing and inexplicable reason, the woman let my mother's friend in INSTEAD of me.

I obviously objected, and was allowed to see her. The woman they let in was giving the doctors incorrect information and was interfering in a very personal family matter.... My mother's last moments.

This level of incompetents is inexcusable. It wasn't until I explained to them that the woman claiming to be my mother's friend, could have been a demented stranger for all I knew, as I had never met her before that moment....

Why would anyone allow a patient's friend to see them rather than a blood relative?

This is something that CANNOT continue to happen.