Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT.
Before you go home from the hospital, you might want to ask your doctors what tests are still pending.
Teniola and I went to the hospital a day after she started feeling unwell. The doctor sent her to the laboratory for some tests. As we were leaving the consulting room, Teni said to me, “I’m not going ...