I run HOSPITALS, not health spas!

[Dave1982]

....two beds to a room, NO EXCEPTIONS!!

So, I don't think I mentioned this, but my mother had surgery this past Friday, and came home today. It was reconstructive surgery to rebuild what was removed when she had a mastectomy a couple years ago (breast cancer). Something happened yesterday that reminded me of the quote in the title.

For most of her stay at the hospital, she had a Spanish woman as a roommate, who then went home on Tuesday. Wednesday she got a new roommate. Not long after a woman showed up whom my mother described as "haughty." High-heeled winter boots, skinny jeans.....turns out she was her new roommate's daughter.

Well, the first thing the daughter's did - after seeing my mother there - was to turn to the nurse and start bitching.

"I requested a PRIVATE room for my mother!!!" she said in a super-snotty tone.

Um, hello, my mother was RIGHT THERE and heard that. How rude can you possibly be?!

They ended up moving the roommate, though from what I'm told, it was more to spare my mother from having to put up with the rude daughter than to appease the rude daughter.

And as the nurse explained, the rude daughter clearly didn't understand that private hospital rooms are not intended for patient privacy as much as they are to protect the other patients. Such rooms are used first for patients who may be mentally unstable and wouldn't get along with a roommate, or who are ill with a contagious disease.

[Amina516]

Ive gotten that bitchiness lots of times. People walk into their room for the first time (usually its the family), see a roomate and turn into Linda Blair from the exorcist.If patients arent supposed to be staying long, we'll leave them in the doubles, however, if theres no private room, we cant pull one out of our ass.

I hope your mom is doing well.

[Der Cute]

Give your mom a hug from me, cancer likes to sneak up to women in my family. And hit that snobby chick over the head with a bedpan.

Your mom should start coughing heavily next time and say ohhhh I'm siiiiiiiick :P

Cutenoob

[SuperRTL]

You know, I never expected a private room whenever I was checked into the hospital and usually, I was right. The only exception to that was the maternity wing of the hospital where my son was born. They were private rooms that were actually bigger than some of the hotel rooms I've stayed in, with a cot for my husband and plenty of chairs for visitors.

[Rapscallion]

"Sure, we've got a private room just opened! I think they'll have decontaminated it from the plague victim who died in there last night by now. I'll get you moved straight in."

Rapscallion

[evilviolentj]

A comment like that at our local hospital would quickly land your bed in the hallway.

[Sheldonrs]

....And as the nurse explained, the rude daughter clearly didn't understand that private hospital rooms are not intended for patient privacy as much as they are to protect the other patients. Such rooms are used first for patients who may be mentally unstable and wouldn't get along with a roommate, or who are ill with a contagious disease.

Is BITCH a mental problem or contagious?

Glad your Mom is OK.

[Talon]

"Sure, we've got a private room just opened! I think they'll have decontaminated it from the plague victim who died in there last night by now. I'll get you moved straight in."

"And they haven't moved ANY of his stuff!" [/GeorgeCarlin]

I like the way your mind works Raps

[KitterCat]

I’ve been stuck in quarantine before for a week in a hospital as a kid. Doctors were concerned about some of the other kids catching what I had due to some of them having open wounds. What I would have given for a roommate to talk to during that time.

Doesn’t the daughter realize once family isn’t there visiting mom is going to only be able to watch so much tv before she’s bored out of her skull? Nevermind the old saying "you can catch more flys with honey than vingar." I've never come across a nurse who wasnt willing to get me something cold to drink or snack on just by saying "please" and "Thank You".

[JLRodgers]

Strange, in the hostpitals around me, all rooms are private (one person in a room). They apparently have to be to prevent a patient clearly hearing the medical conditions or problems of another (which apparently violates the HIPAA laws from what we were told). One hospital has doubled in size (or is in the process of it) as they lost half their capacity due to this.

[Amina516]

Strange, in the hostpitals around me, all rooms are private (one person in a room). They apparently have to be to prevent a patient clearly hearing the medical conditions or problems of another (which apparently violates the HIPAA laws from what we were told). One hospital has doubled in size (or is in the process of it) as they lost half their capacity due to this.

The one I work for has been moving towards this for years. But just cutting out all the doubles would very much cripple their ability to take inpatients. We're at capacity most nights I go in. On my floor, of the 20 pateint rooms, only 4 are doubles. But really, if someones there for something minor, i dont see why a room cant be shared.

As far as HIPPA, double rooms dont violate this b/c Hipaa has some kind of clause knowing that a lot of hospital have double rooms. Its more like a "reasonable" expectation of privacy, but I agree, its kinda hard to have a personal conversation knowing there's someone on the other side of that curtain.

/threadjack

Back to your regularly scheduled program.

[Zellie Crescent]

When my mom went into the hospital she had a bitch of a roommate who made her cry, she said my mom was diseased, and a walking flesh-eating bactieria. When we went to see her the "woman" took one look at Lauren and started shouting and cursing at us, saying that "those little brats" have no bussiness being in a hospital. Me and my Aunt Loraine went to the nurses station to complain and found out that before my mom she went through 5 other roommates.

[elsporko]

When I was in the hospital back when I was 8 I had a private room, but thats because the hospital in my hometown rarely has many people in it. I loved it since I had to share a room at home so there I got to stay up as late as I wanted, eat meals in bed, and watch whatever I wanted.

[Primer]

Looking back on the (too) many hospital stays DH and I have had, I can remember only one, back in 1987, that was NOT a private room. I'd had an emergency appendectomy, and ended up in a double on the maternity ward.

[BethB]

I've only had a private room when I had my son(the youngest). I was allowed to keep it cuz there were no other babies being borned(). And the nurses said I was the best patient ever. No screaming, cussing, or being plain bitchy cuz I was in labor. Not the nurses fault I got knocked up. But then they needed the room and I got moved to Pediatrics .

I've worked in a military hospital and the only private rooms (besides OB) were the rooms for the contagious. No way they'd give them up no matter how much you gripe. It got lonely, I'm sure, for the patients in there.