Posted by roscopeeco on January 9, 2011, at 9:36:16
In reply to Re: In need of kind, gentle support, posted by emmanuel98 on January 1, 2011, at 23:23:41
> > > When I have been hospitalized, the nurses were great. They didn't do the checks, though. The aides did. But if you needed to talk to someone besides the social worker (once a day) and the doctor (once a day for about 20 minutes), the nurses were always available. That was my experience, anyway.
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> > Wow, sounds lush. Where I was there was (I've been in two places in Montreal, and 3 places in Calgary, one in Kitchener, and two in Washington DC)only one social worker for 35 patients so talking to her was not usually possible. Her role was to help patients find housing etc. after they left the hospital. I never saw my doctor once a day, maybe every 3-4 days.
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> > Health crisis in Canada, eh?
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> What a drag. Sounds like the snake pit. Why doesn't the government put more money into health? Or is it just mental health that suffers. When I was visiting my daughter in Quebec, we went to see a friend of heres who had been hospitalized with a fever and sore throat. They would never hospitalize someone for that in the states. Just give you and anti-biotic and send you home. She was weak and her WBC count was low, so they kept her in the hospital to monitor. I found this amazing.They hospitalize people in the states all the time for that. I work in an Emergency Department. It depends on the extent of the infection and what type of antibiotics they are given. Some antibiotics need to be given IV and hospital administration is usually what happens in these cases.
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