[Domestic Church]

There needs to be an open intercom system in these SARS rooms. If voice contact is ingoing it might help alleviate some of the isolation stress.

(Remembering a harrowing three day long induced labor in a room without windows.)

[Judith Anne]

I agree, and both hospitals where I work have such systems. I suspect a lot of hospitals do; likely the majority, but I don't know...

Isolation is so difficult for patients, families, and nurses...and families tend to get lax, over an amazingly short period of time...so do physicians, in my experience.

[First Amendment]

There needs to be an open intercom system in these SARS rooms. If voice contact is ingoing it might help alleviate some of the isolation stress.

Hearing classical/favorite music should help, books on tape if conscious enough... Once I was very sick, basically alone (and sleepless from pain) for a week, and I survived because my tape player was within reach - I listened to two favorite tapes over and over for a week, and the sound kept me alive.