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    Sometimes a dog can be better for a patient than hospital | Ranjana Srivastava

    Suffering patients may need to just be asked ‘tell me about your pet’
    by Ranjana Srivastava Nov 20, 2018 4 minutes
    ‘I wonder how often doctors are cognisant of the silent distress of patients who are separated from their pets?’ Photograph: IJdema/Getty Images/iStockphoto

    An elderly patient is admitted to hospital after a fall at home. He is stunned after the fall but, thankfully, uninjured. It takes him a few days to recover but as soon as he is able, he wants to go home. The physiotherapist wants to work with him, the social worker wants to examine his support system, but all he wants to do is go home. We feel he is not yet safe. He acknowledges that a worse event could happen but still, he wants to go home. Theories are posited as to why.

    Maybe the concussion is worse than we first thought. Maybe he is cognitively impaired and unable

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