[goldstategop]

Which means patients need a lot of human contact and help to make it through. Isolating them from fellow patients is a bad idea. Seeing others make it boosts your own will to recover and resume an active life. That's one of the lessons of SARS.

[Judith Anne]

A lot of human contact--nice thought, but it's going to be hard. I'm thinking of nurses with small children...hard to be away from your babies...hard to be away from your spouse, and only talk on a phone...

As a nurse, I know how much a touch can mean, sometimes a hug, it's healing and does something good for patients AND the nurse...when a patient has SARS, no skin to skin contact for a good long while...think of it...and how long are we going to be in the patient's room--the guideline is to minimize the amount of time spent in the room...impossible to leave someone when they're weeping, though...especially a fellow nurse...

Just mentioning a few issues with the isolation...

I've worked with isolation techniques on patients a lot of times, it's hard on regular people even just for a few days...much less two weeks or more...

[GOPJ]

Thanks for an important observation:

Which means patients need a lot of human contact and help to make it through. Isolating them from fellow patients is a bad idea. Seeing others make it boosts your own will to recover and resume an active life. That's one of the lessons of SARS.