As a nurse, my duty is to protect and promote the health of my patient. If I see my patient’s O2 level is dropping to a dangerous level because the client is taking off their mask to speak to a visitor, I would say to the visitor “Ms. Doe needs to keep the mask on at all times, please encourage her to do so”. If the opposite happens, I am kicking them out, even if they have permission to be there. We are not there to treat the visitors, but the patient.
Some doctors can be a pain in the arse also..some are great..You lose real quick automatic respect for them and that to know the good ones from the jackass's..