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Originally Posted by Warren Kiefer
I appreciate all the words encouraging my understanding of Doctors and Nurses and their tremendous responsibilities. BUT and this is a big BUT, when a person has had a hospital stay, they are usually very stressed already. To sit in a hospital room wearing their street clothing for 10 maybe 12 hours for a doctor's signature on a discharge paper brings that stress to an unbelievable level. Somehow, someway this simply should not happen. Being well and leaving a hospital should be a celebration, not a horrible experience. A patient is entitled to a major degree, an explanation what is to take place.
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I agree. "To sit in a hospital room wearing their street clothing for 10 maybe 12 hours for a doctor's signature on a discharge paper" makes a patient feel like they are nothing more than a brainless, inanimate
object.....like a slab of meat.
Respect has to go
both ways.