I Officially HATE Hospitals!!!

I also don't like hospitals, but I had a friend who was an emergency room nurse and not to give these nurses an excuse, but they are over-worked. When your husband asked for some soup, did you ask about it like 30 minutes later? When I was in the hospital having my babies, my husband would actually track down someone if I needed something and make sure I got the care I needed.

I hope your hubby is feeling better now. I, too, hate hospitals and the one near us is on a list of the worst performing hospitals in the country, which doesn't surprise me. The nurses don't care and any surgery is conducted in the quickest time, resembling some cattle market. Thank God I've not had to visit it this year!

Hospitals here are always copping flack for the waiting times, I try to stay away from them as I am not good at keeping vertical when it has anything to do with hospitals and stuff.

Poor guy! I am so sorry to hear that. The last time I was in the emergency room I got a taste of how rude nurses can be. And let me say I know three nurses who are wonderful, and nurses in general are underappreciated. But that doesn't mean there are not bad ones. There are. And the one I had was horrible. The ER was empty and there wasn't a patient in sight. It was around 3am. I get into the room and lay back on the bed and ask for a pillow. Because of my neck problems and I was in there for a migraine that wouldn't go away for five days. So I needed a pillow. She said, no, those are only for people who have to lay on the floor. The nurse wouldn't give me a pillow!!!!!! I saw where they were, just right next to the bed in a drawer. I was appalled. Just to make sure I asked my dad when she left the room. I said dad, I'm in a lot of pain so I can't tell. But was she as rude as I think she was? And my dad said, yep. If a person ticks my dad off, you know it's bad. We were both nice to her anyway. I was in no shape for a disagreement.

I don't even go to the doctor here....yup I go out of town to someplace I think is better....our hospital is also complacent....they are there for the money and have had some big changes that has made everyone unhappy! I do hope by now your husband is on the mend. I had a problem big time with a VA hospital when my dad was alive....I couldn't believe how no one gave a darn and were well paid by the government....in fact I went to our senator about the whole situation! It was awful!

Medicine has become an industry (it used to be an art) and like all industries, the customers/patients are put into an assembly line and treated automatically without any consideration for their pain or need. The only way to survive in our medical world as a patient is to take charge and be pro-active. Don't even get me started on horror stories from my experiences with different hospitals! For as much as a hospital charges, you could probably have saved money taking your hubby to a five star hotel with room service for his recovery and just had an attendant hired for him there! The last time I stayed in a hospital, I nearly choked on just what they charged for the bed I occupied...and the service there was nowhere near what I would have gotten in a hotel that charged 1/10 the price!

Hope by now your husband is well and out of pain. It sounds like it was a serious injury. I haven't really had much difficulty with staff at hospitals. But I spent a good deal of time in them as a child. So maybe I just don't notice as much as others. The hospital I had my kids at was nice and I was well cared for. Sounds like a few nurses where you were may have been having a bad day.

I think alot of us hate hospitals. I was sorry to hear that your husband got injured at work. Sounds like he will be laid up for sometime. Alot of physical therapy, but glad he had a good nurse. The reason the nurses might not have brought your husband's soup was either they were that busy or they needed to ask the doctor if it was ok to give him something to eat after the surgery. Sometimes it takes along time to get in touch with the doctor. The doctor could have been busy in another surgery. I hope your husband's surgery is successful and that he has a full recovery. Will keep you all in our prayers. Hugs

Most of the people working in the Hospital are heartless. They have to be caring, understanding and most of all, hospitable because people who are admitting in the Hospital has a higher anxiety level and should be treated nice. But those people doesn't care for patients at all. I agree with you, Nurses seemed that they didn't really like their job and sometimes they are snob. I really hate people in the Hospital because I also had a bad experience with them.

Hospitals are the same here. I remember when my youngest was sick, and it was at night so all the day clinics were already closed so we had to go the hospital emergency room. I thought it would be quicker being it an 'emergency' room. But we still we had to wait a few hours. It was a looooong night! I hope your hubby and his hand is better now.

If you ask me, I personally hate hospitals too, but there are many hospitals which are so much better than what you described above. There are hospitals here in my area who treat each and every individual as a big celebrity. The rooms are like of any seven star Hotel. The nurses and other members are so good there. They respond to each and everything you ask for.

To your hubby: Get well soon! I was taken to the hospital 2 days ago coz I was bitten by a bloodsucker and it cause me allergy like my whole body was so itchy. The hospital staff treat me nicely but the hospital fee makes me feel itchy again. Really. It was so expensive. I didn't stay for long coz after I was injected for anti-histamine the itch was gone. When we check how much we gonna pay its: anti-histamine=300Php; hospital fee=330Php.OMG!

the things i dont like in the hospital is slow assistant, luck of food and also snatcher.. yes my onther and my grand mother was victim of snatcher inside the hospital, theres lot of patient was also a victim of snatcher when they got sleep in deep. i hate them so much...

I have been in hospitals and some of them respond real slow to a patient's needs. They even serve those first who they think can afford the hospital fees and not attend immediately to those who look poor. it's terrible! in hospitals, they have lines also, and most of the people who waited are going to have to wait for more than an hour. surgeons are fast in their jobs, the factors that make the processes slow are the paper works, the other patients that the health care team has to attend to(there are many of them patients) But i think our hospitals here are faster than the one you mentioned here. and the nurses are usually kind and caring although they don't follow request that fast because they have other patients to consider as well and they have to coordinate with the dietician for the patient's meal, you see. in hospitals there are many professionals and each of them have their own function. when they act, they often have to coordinate with the doctor first before doing anything for the patient. I've never been a patient in a hospital, thank God. so i can't say what it is like. i have only tried as a nursing student in a hospital. hospitals are cold(figuratively) to me and the place makes me feel depressed for some reason. so i don't like hospitals either. I pray for your husband. I pray he'll get well soon.

Hi LovingMyBabies, The way I see it, a hospital is only as good as the staff that works there. We judge the whole hospital as being bad when we have a bad experience. I had a bad experience also when I was still married. My husband had surgery and the CNA was to take vital signs every 15 minutes 4 times and ever 30 minutes 2 times, and once an hour for 4 hours after that and then once a shift after that. The CNA guy did the vitals the first time, but all the other times he just came in and wrote the vitals down without taking them. This was when they still had to take blood pressures manually... they didn't have the computerized machines to do it. I let it go the first time, but the second time he did that, I went to look at the paper left in the room and saw where he just wrote in the vitals. I asked for the nursing supervisor and reported it. I figured the guy would be angry that I reported him, but he did come in and take the vitals after that when he was supposed to.

I really hope your husband is fine and back home within no time. And i hope the Nurses would be more helpful in future. If there is a suggestion box in the hospital, please write a few lines and drop it. May be it will help some other persons if they speed up their services and do quality time saving. Sometime back i took my neighbor (with asthma problem) to a lady doctor at around 8.30 pm but the receptionist simply refused to give us the appointment as they close the appointment by 8.pm. I turned furious and shouted she should put a 'closed' sign outside the Dr. chamber. We had to go to a different and a distant hospital then...

hello lovingmybabies! I feel so sorry for what happened to your husband and what you've experienced there. I will pray for the immediate recovery of your husband. happy day!