Personal Health - Patient Advocates Help to Manage Care - NYTimes.com

Personal Health - Patient Advocates Help to Manage Care - NYTimes.com: "Two days after surgery to replace both my knees, a social worker employed by the hospital told me that the insurance company would not pay for me to stay any longer. Seeing that I was barely able to get to the bathroom on my own, she told the company I was not ready to enter rehab and insisted that I needed at least another day in the hospital."