[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.

[Judith Anne]

Except, of course, if the others die...

(Sorry, I couldn't help posting this...I've seen it happen...patients always worry if there's someone else in the room. CERTAINLY any isolated patient needs a lot of support and human contact...I myself would personally want anything that let me sleep through the majority of it.)