Home Care V. Hosptial Care (Comparing Lorenzo's Oil and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

When people are diagnosed with an illness that cannot be cured, it is much better for them to receive home care, as opposed to hospital care. With home care, people who love and care about the patient and usually have their best interests at heart. In a hospital, often there are too many other patients for the nurses or doctors to really give one patient the care and attention that they need. Especially with today's …

…pay money to be in a hospital that is not going to help anyway. Even though one may not know as much about a disease as a doctor, the doctor does not have as much emotional connection with all of the patients. In hospitals, doctors can neglect the patients needs, not intentionally, but simply because they do not have the time. So patients are lacking the care and attention they would otherwise receive at home.