This whole mess was brought home to me a few years ago when I went top visit my father, who had kidney failure, in the hospital and found him in his room a the end of the hall without electric monitors and no supervision. I asked if he had gotten any food or medicine that day. He told me "no." When I went to the nurse's station to see what was going on I was told the patient in that room had "expired." Except my dad was quite alive! I called my family and we moved my dad out that same night to another hospital... Our doctor met with us at some point and told us mix-ups were common...