disneysteve
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I wish that were true but it simply isn't. Someone without considerable medical knowledge can definitely be helpful, but there's no way they'd catch the sorts of issues and errors that a trained professional like you or I would. We know to ask questions that a lay person just wouldn't know to ask.RN here, I have been an advocate for many family members, as has my SiL, who is a pharmacist.
It is good to have a medical person help, however, I would argue that any other family member can advocate just as well.
My wife is an intelligent woman and knows a good bit about medical stuff from her own experiences and being married to a doctor for 31 years. Still, numerous times when I've been with her in the hospital or at a doctor's office, I asked a question and she said she never would have thought to ask about that. I knew to ask because I'm a doctor and I know stuff that the average person just doesn't.
Obviously, the problem is that most people don't have a doctor who can be at their side when they're in the hospital and going to doctor visits.