In battling my errant jaw, I’ve traversed paths various in the medical treatment world - and some of those paths are rocky, rife with vicious animals and strewn with hazards.
The bureaucracy and paperwork are daunting and riddled with delay, indiffrence and confusion; for somebody in serious pain, this is an added layer of annoyance (“We didn’t get any fax from them. Maybe check back next week.” - because your office changed fax numbers twice last year.).