Linda Mason held two bottles of medications she couldn't see. Dressed in a patient gown, she sat in a room after being told she was discharged from the hospital. Disabled and blind, she was told to have her caregiver read the instructions on how to administer the medications. Then she was left alone. After a passer-by lent her a cellphone, Mason called her 89-year-old mother, who found a friend to bring her to the hospital to pick her up. It then took an hour for her mother to find someone to explain the discharge instructions.
