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I’ve been hospitalised 7 times. In New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, and Singapore. Aside from the first day/night after surgery, I’ve never felt like Hospita

I’ve been hospitalised 7 times. In New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, and Singapore. Aside from the first day/night after surgery, I’ve never felt like Hospitals are against slept?!? My Wife had a c-section in October. Again, other than first day/night after surgery, never felt like we were interrupted all the time. Is this article about America or something?

dijit 8y ago
Agree. I’ve been overnight hospitalised in Estonia, Sweden and the UK- and I feel like every measure is taken to avoid disturbing sleep. Even heart rate monitor alarms are turned off/down locally;
- michaelt 8y ago
  I spent two nights in hospital in the UK after surgery for a broken arm. They were pretty good about not interrupting my sleep.... except for putting me in a ward with a bunch of sick people who were coughing and wheezing and groaning all the time.
strken 8y ago
It very much depends on what's wrong with you. I've been hospitalised multiple times. Most of the times were fine, but once was neurosurgery, and I'd be woken up at regular intervals throughout the night to answer "What's your name? Where are you? What year is it? How many fingers am I holding up?" At some point there must be a crossover between the risk of an undetected problem vs the risk inherent in lack of sleep. Not to mention "PAGING RESPOND MET CALL CODE BLUE"[0] followed by a crash cart tearing off down the hallway at 4am, and of course once you've been in the hospital for a few days you know that "MET call" means someone is probably dying and "code blue" means it's from cardiopulmonary arrest, which doesn't really help soothe you back to sleep. [0] the jargon is probably wrong
- C1sc0cat 8y ago
  Or they wake you up to move your bed from the high risk side of the ward as they have an emergency admission - and overhear the nurses say "might die"
fit2rule 8y ago
Anecdotal data point: I have been hospitalised a number of times in Europe (German, Austria) and this article really resonated with me. Every time I returned home, I was relieved to be able to get back to a regular sleep schedule and it really befuddled me during my stays that I never seemed well rested, as if this was somehow the hospital administrators task to ensure that I didn't just use my hospital visit as a pseudo-vacation.
jnty 8y ago
I think the issue summarised the first line the author writes: "I’ve been hospitalized once in my life."
SeriousM 8y ago
Same in Austria, we have "quiet hours" to allow patients to sleep without any interruptions.
kwhitefoot 8y ago
> Is this article about America or something? That was my reaction too. My wife was in and out of hospital for two years in Drammen, Norway (2015 to 2017), and I never got the impression that her sleep was interrupted. I spent quite a lot of time with her in the hospital and the staff were quiet, courteous, helpful, and kind. They weren't always as available as one might wish but that was fairly rare.

dijit 8y ago

Agree. I’ve been overnight hospitalised in Estonia, Sweden and the UK- and I feel like every measure is taken to avoid disturbing sleep. Even heart rate monitor alarms are turned off/down locally;

michaelt 8y ago
I spent two nights in hospital in the UK after surgery for a broken arm. They were pretty good about not interrupting my sleep.... except for putting me in a ward with a bunch of sick people who were coughing and wheezing and groaning all the time.

strken 8y ago

It very much depends on what's wrong with you. I've been hospitalised multiple times. Most of the times were fine, but once was neurosurgery, and I'd be woken up at regular intervals throughout the night to answer "What's your name? Where are you? What year is it? How many fingers am I holding up?" At some point there must be a crossover between the risk of an undetected problem vs the risk inherent in lack of sleep. Not to mention "PAGING RESPOND MET CALL CODE BLUE"[0] followed by a crash cart tearing off down the hallway at 4am, and of course once you've been in the hospital for a few days you know that "MET call" means someone is probably dying and "code blue" means it's from cardiopulmonary arrest, which doesn't really help soothe you back to sleep. [0] the jargon is probably wrong

C1sc0cat 8y ago
Or they wake you up to move your bed from the high risk side of the ward as they have an emergency admission - and overhear the nurses say "might die"

fit2rule 8y ago

Anecdotal data point: I have been hospitalised a number of times in Europe (German, Austria) and this article really resonated with me. Every time I returned home, I was relieved to be able to get back to a regular sleep schedule and it really befuddled me during my stays that I never seemed well rested, as if this was somehow the hospital administrators task to ensure that I didn't just use my hospital visit as a pseudo-vacation.

jnty 8y ago

I think the issue summarised the first line the author writes: "I’ve been hospitalized once in my life."

SeriousM 8y ago

Same in Austria, we have "quiet hours" to allow patients to sleep without any interruptions.

kwhitefoot 8y ago

> Is this article about America or something? That was my reaction too. My wife was in and out of hospital for two years in Drammen, Norway (2015 to 2017), and I never got the impression that her sleep was interrupted. I spent quite a lot of time with her in the hospital and the staff were quiet, courteous, helpful, and kind. They weren't always as available as one might wish but that was fairly rare.