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HOSPITAL SURVIVAL....
A recent two week stay in a couple of hospitals has provided me with some helpful tips to improve your
next stay at one of these medical Hilton�s.
The cost of a room, and in most cases it�s a semi-private room is to the point of being ridiculous.
As an example my shared room at St. Mary�s Hospital /of the Mayo complex was just shy of $1200 per day.
Suppose you could convince the medical wizards handling your case to let you stay down the street at a motel. You could easily save $1000 a day wguch would leave you with more than enough to hire a private nurse to replace the IV when it went dry. Your room would get cleaned daily which didn�t always happen in my room and the continental breakfast is probably on a par with hospital breakfast. You would have to order out for your other meals which would ad a bit of an expense.
When you are moved into a room in a hospital I recommend that you take the bed closest to the bathroom. The window beds aren't that great. Same view day after day and it�s usually the back of a building and the sun doesn�t always shine. You�ll use the bathroom a lot so take the closest bed .
Make sure you know how to spell your name. I suppose you could learn how to spell it when you are in the hospital but you probably wouldn�t get any care until you were able to recite it correctly. And memorize your birth date. Two musts for a successful stay. Every time they do anything to you they ask for name and dob. If you�re unconscious you gotta problem!
Don�t plan on sleeping for any length of time. Two straight hours seems to be the limit/ It must be some kind pf hospital rule! I became convinced that more than two continuous hours must be unhealthy. Look at it with this attitude and you�ll learn to appreciate the lack of sleep.
Eating is another area they cut costs on. Especially breakfast. The kitchens must be able to run the breakfast shift with hardly any help. Most every night they found some reason to keep me fasting. I almost got away with eating the last morning I was there. They brought breakfast in and set it down but before I could grab a fork the nurse was in snatching it from me so I could wait for a test around noon.
The speakers for the TV are located in the bed rails so if you should have guests and they happen to want to hear what your watching they most likely will have to crawl in with you. I guess it's the hospital version of surround sound. Couldn�t find a solution for this problem.
There still using those goofy gowns that are always open in the back. I noticed that just about everything they did to me occurred on the front. Wonder why no one has ever invented a better system. Bring your own Pj�s! There much more practical.
You might want to memorize housekeeping phone number. At Mayo they didn�t show up all that often but they did come when they were called. I did have to tell them where to clean though but what do you expect for only $1200 a day room rent.
You will quickly learn that the signs telling you not to get out of bed unless the nurse is there don�t really apply to you. The rule seems to be that you watch how it�s done one time and then your on your own.
Confidentiality is rather humorous. At registration you weren�t allowed to stand closer than so many feet so you don�t overhear confidential information. In your room with a roommate and visitors they ask you every question imaginable, from your sex live to your finances, with everyone present able to tune in. I think the solution is to bring two notebooks, one for you and one for the questioner, and write questions and answers. Of course you�ll have to eat the pages afterward so there is no evidence.
Finally, don�t think that because you had a test at one place that they will accept it at another institution. I�m convinced they don�t read past reports and they think every other hospital or clinic has incompetent baboons doing the test and taking the x-rays. Do you suppose there�s a revenue angle here?
Perhaps this information will be of some value to you on your next occasion to spend some time in a facility designed to make you healthy.
REB
A recent two week stay in a couple of hospitals has provided me with some helpful tips to improve your
next stay at one of these medical Hilton�s.
The cost of a room, and in most cases it�s a semi-private room is to the point of being ridiculous.
As an example my shared room at St. Mary�s Hospital /of the Mayo complex was just shy of $1200 per day.
Suppose you could convince the medical wizards handling your case to let you stay down the street at a motel. You could easily save $1000 a day wguch would leave you with more than enough to hire a private nurse to replace the IV when it went dry. Your room would get cleaned daily which didn�t always happen in my room and the continental breakfast is probably on a par with hospital breakfast. You would have to order out for your other meals which would ad a bit of an expense.
When you are moved into a room in a hospital I recommend that you take the bed closest to the bathroom. The window beds aren't that great. Same view day after day and it�s usually the back of a building and the sun doesn�t always shine. You�ll use the bathroom a lot so take the closest bed .
Make sure you know how to spell your name. I suppose you could learn how to spell it when you are in the hospital but you probably wouldn�t get any care until you were able to recite it correctly. And memorize your birth date. Two musts for a successful stay. Every time they do anything to you they ask for name and dob. If you�re unconscious you gotta problem!
Don�t plan on sleeping for any length of time. Two straight hours seems to be the limit/ It must be some kind pf hospital rule! I became convinced that more than two continuous hours must be unhealthy. Look at it with this attitude and you�ll learn to appreciate the lack of sleep.
Eating is another area they cut costs on. Especially breakfast. The kitchens must be able to run the breakfast shift with hardly any help. Most every night they found some reason to keep me fasting. I almost got away with eating the last morning I was there. They brought breakfast in and set it down but before I could grab a fork the nurse was in snatching it from me so I could wait for a test around noon.
The speakers for the TV are located in the bed rails so if you should have guests and they happen to want to hear what your watching they most likely will have to crawl in with you. I guess it's the hospital version of surround sound. Couldn�t find a solution for this problem.
There still using those goofy gowns that are always open in the back. I noticed that just about everything they did to me occurred on the front. Wonder why no one has ever invented a better system. Bring your own Pj�s! There much more practical.
You might want to memorize housekeeping phone number. At Mayo they didn�t show up all that often but they did come when they were called. I did have to tell them where to clean though but what do you expect for only $1200 a day room rent.
You will quickly learn that the signs telling you not to get out of bed unless the nurse is there don�t really apply to you. The rule seems to be that you watch how it�s done one time and then your on your own.
Confidentiality is rather humorous. At registration you weren�t allowed to stand closer than so many feet so you don�t overhear confidential information. In your room with a roommate and visitors they ask you every question imaginable, from your sex live to your finances, with everyone present able to tune in. I think the solution is to bring two notebooks, one for you and one for the questioner, and write questions and answers. Of course you�ll have to eat the pages afterward so there is no evidence.
Finally, don�t think that because you had a test at one place that they will accept it at another institution. I�m convinced they don�t read past reports and they think every other hospital or clinic has incompetent baboons doing the test and taking the x-rays. Do you suppose there�s a revenue angle here?
Perhaps this information will be of some value to you on your next occasion to spend some time in a facility designed to make you healthy.
REB