Re Hospital SLIDE—They need to hang:
Agreed. My hubby is in the hospital and I’ve observed these things:
1. They had him sign all his preop consents electronically right in front of them so he didn’t have time to read them. Just “sign here, sign her, sign here.” God knows what he agreed to!
2. There is NO warmth from staff for the family members. They do not want us there. They tolerate us during visiting hours but that is it. I had to go sit in the hospital lobby when visiting hours ended during my husband’s five-hour surgery. No doctor came to speak to me after the surgery. I got a phone call. I was “allowed” to see him in recovery. Once he was in ICU and now step down, as I come and go, not one nurse on the floors has greeted me. Not one has asked if I need a cup of water or a blanket. There is a definite air of mistrust toward visitors. They know some of us know.
3. They give him meds and tell him what they are afterward. Gone are the days of partnership with the patient in his own care.
4. There seemed like a lot more chitchat amongst the nurses, especially at shift change. His room was near the nurses’ station and there was no attempt to be quiet as they talked for 20 minutes about everything but the patient.
5. There used to be restrooms for family in each unit. No more. There are now a couple of dual gender restrooms out on the floor near the elevator. All the herding of relatives to common waiting ares and heavily used common restrooms seems to be designed to spread germs among the many visitors on a floor together.
6. I was allowed into the hospital with no Covid testing or questions or showing of vaxx cards, just wear a mask. It is a teaching hospital, with lots of “immigrant” patients, so maybe that is the reason? And no stipulations on type of mask. I opted for my loose cloth mask. Don’t they know masks don’t work? How can the hospital where he was a few months ago be so strict, and this one so free? If this is a health emergency, shouldn’t all hospitals be handling visitors the same way?
I don’t trust.
...prayers up for your husband too.
Agreed. My hubby is in the hospital and I’ve observed these things:
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aaahhh,no, we didn’t know...so sorry for what you are going through now.
We are all with you.
Sorry your husband is in the hospital, Melian.
I agree and noticed these things when I was in the hospital last year. My nurse was really pissed that I wasn’t vaxxed 😂. I can laugh now, I was too sick to laugh when I was in the hospital.
Were they still all quadruple masked and wearing shields? That was ridiculous to me.
I found out I was one of only a couple of patients on my floor!!! But since I had super, beyond cure leprosy/ebola/plague.. I was treated oh like I had leprosyebolaplague lol.
Some know we know, some are just, I don’t know, following orders? During break time, they need to stick these people in a room and have them watch vids on WW2. “I was just following orders.”
Anyway, prayers for your husband.
Very different from my recent experience with Medevac - ICU - Hospital ward in the VA facility in Seattle. It was virtually the opposite in fact.
PR was not able to fly with me in the helicopter to Sitka. She took an Alaska Airlines flight the next day.
Once in Seattle she had full access and communication with my doctors. The nurses and support staff were helpful and professionally friendly. No masks on the staff nor on patients or visitors that I observed.
Overall, I found it a reassuring, if not exactly pleasant, experience. PR was pleased with the way she was treated (Except for being denied the helicopter ride) and with the way I was treated as well.
P.S. I'm doing fine now.
Melian; Sorry to learn about your husband! Prayers for a sucessful procedure and healing!
Wow, what a dire report. Horrible.
Think about sending your excellent account to beyond here.
Is there an DC oversight committee, or a trusted state representative that would be grateful to add your experience to an information gathering effort, (as the Republicans are now arming to go aggressively with investigating the outrageous American medical tom-foolery)?
I’m sorry to hear your husband is in the hospital. I’ll be sending prayers up for both of you.
Prayers up.
I am praying for you and your husband.
The treatment this hospital gives to its PAYING CUSTOMERS is horrible.
In any other business, they would be OUT of business.
Prayers up for your husband!
Nurses are allegedly the most admired profession in America.