Health Tips Library - Hospitals -- #1 in a series
Hospitals are excellent places to be if you need a broken bone set or an emergency surgery. Hospitals are not however conducive to healing once the emergency is handled. They are actually survived best by the physically fit and healthy.
Rest and recuperation are secondary to hospital production. Patients can be woken at 2 a.m. to measure their blood pressure and temperature and then at 4 a.m. for blood draws. There are often beeping machines within patients' rooms that do not necessarily beep at the nurse's station.
The in-patient rooms, unless private, are often full of people with their visitors making a lot of noise. Patients are often groaning in pain. Privacy is often just not an option.
A medical doctor's training does not emphasize searching for the root cause of your problem, but you will be strongly considered for their surgical specialty. This has a good workability when dealing with a burst appendix, but does not necessarily give the patient a better understanding of how to improve and maintain health.
However, it is a realistic target that someone would leave a hospital with a lot more data regarding their body than when they were admitted.
See other tips in this series on how to make the most out of a hospital stay.
See other tips in my hospitals series on how to make the most out of a hospital stay.
Best of health,
Dr. Pepi
August 17, 2009
