Posted by emmanuel98 on August 29, 2011, at 22:10:27
In reply to Re: Would you rather be 'real' sick?, posted by Lepus on August 29, 2011, at 21:24:07
I have been hospitalized several times and have found the nurses kind and caring. As a psych patient, I see the doctor every day for half an hour or so. As a non-psych patient (have had double pnuemonia, menigitis and major ankle surgery), I see a doctor for maybe five minutes, and then it's a resident who is barely competent. Nurses on medical wards are completely overworked. When I had pneumonia, I noticed that none of the nurses was over 35 and I asked one of the nurses about this. She said people burn out. On psych wards, the nurses tend to be older and tend to stay on for years.
I would be happier to have a physical illness insofar as my daughter and husband would feel less ambivalence, but in terms of hospitalization, I feel psych wards have been kind and caring in a way that medical wards are not.
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