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.