Totally, totally agree. The threads on healthcare are the second lowest quality content on HN (after cryptocurrency). Maybe this is because HN readers are pisse

Totally, totally agree. The threads on healthcare are the second lowest quality content on HN (after cryptocurrency). Maybe this is because HN readers are pissed off by the healthcare system. Guess what, so are the people that work there. Eg. Sleep in hospitals. Everybody including the patient, nurses, doctors and the janitor knows it is hard to sleep in hospital. I'm regularly told by the patient, the patient's family, the nurses, the music therapist etc that the patient can't sleep. Believe or not, my response is not 'Well I didn't get much sleep last night either' or other such nonsense. The team tries to do what they can, eg stopping IV fluids overnight, or reducing unnecessary observations, or giving a sleeping pill, or moving disruptive patients into their own room, or best of all just trying to get the patient out of hospital as soon as possible. But that doesn't make much of a news piece, people just trying to do what they can for the patient. Instead one problem with inpatient care is singled out in a way that is designed to foment outrage, and everyone piles on with their individual poor-sleep-in-hospital experience.