Isn’t it refreshing to read about a medical adventure in which all parties got it right?

“Doing Things Right: Why Three Hospitals didn’t Harm My Wife” is the tale told by Michael L. Millenson on the Kaiser Health News website earlier this month.

“My wife was lying in the back of an ambulance, dazed and bloody, while I sat in the front, distraught and distracted,” he begins. “We had been bicycling in a quiet neighborhood in southern Maine when she hit the handbrakes too hard and catapulted over the handlebars, turning our first day of vacation into a race to the nearest hospital.