In his books `` It 's Only Temporary , '' and `` Time on Fire , '' Handler wrote that during his months in the hospital , he was given intravenous drugs that were supposed to go to another patient , that nurses tried to give him medications his doctors had forbidden for him and that staff members refused to follow the hospital 's posted hygiene precautions for immunosuppressed patients like himself . Actor Evan Handler says `` bad '' patients do better for themselves . Nurses tried to give him drugs to which he 'd had `` horrendous adverse reactions '' and then they gave him a drug that was worse, so now he's back on the same medication again.
Actor Evan Handler says `` bad '' patients do better for themselves . Nurses tried to give him drugs to which he 'd had `` horrendous adverse reactions '' and then they gave him a drug that was worse, so now he's back on the same medication again.