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Originally Posted by Laker14
I don't know if we'll ever figure this out, but one thing that I have always felt was wrong, and this pandemic has reenforced for me, is the idea that we have these huge buildings, i.e. hospitals, where we send, treat, and concentrate, infectious people, and then we send into these same buildings, patients and care providers who aren't sick or infectious. ....
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Throughout the country, there are some "surgical hospitals" where patients are not ill or contagious and there only for surgical procedures. My husband had his back surgery at one of these in another state. The facility was co-owned by a group of surgeons (I don't know the exact financial arrangements or whether some non-owner physicians could pay for privileges, etc.) who would generally alternate their procedures between this surgical hospital (for low-risk patients) and a more traditional hospital for surgeries on their higher-risk patients. The experience at this surgical facility was much less stressful than the usual hospital stay.