I have a few friends who are nurses and their major grievance is how doctors don't communicate well with them at all, let alone the patients. You know, nurses know more about the patients in essence that they are working very closely with them. And if only the doctors took one or two minutes to listen to the nurses, a LOT of distress and undue hassle to the patient/nurse could be avoided. For example, the nurse knows this patient has been unable to swallow medicines but the doc kept prescribing him more of the tablets. All he had to do is ask the nurse to give him the latest briefing about the patient and he would have known what was going on and perhaps would have prescribed him something else. And really, it's the little; nearly trivial kind of issue is what can cause a setback. Now I am not sure if she could have just left a note on the patient’s roster stating that but the point is, communication is the key here! And, that seems to be lacking plenty.