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Arizona’s health care system needs to improve

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OPINION — I pray to God something improves with our health care system.

My husband is dead and gone because the health care system here in Arizona failed him. I called 911 because my husband had fallen a couple of times. He didn’t need to die four weeks later – he had low sodium and low electrolytes. I thought they’d give him an IV and I’d take him home in a couple of days. He ended up getting sepsis, sending him to a rehab, bringing him back to the hospital and back to rehab.

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