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So... it’s really hard to get the physical leverage to actually cut your food while laying down in bed — especially with your arms tied down by IVs, monitoring

So... it’s really hard to get the physical leverage to actually cut your food while laying down in bed — especially with your arms tied down by IVs, monitoring devices, etc. It’s a really awkward position. Which brings me to my pet peeve as a patient: the fact that hospitals require even healthy patients to be monitored for vitals every 4 hours (yes, even overnight — I told the nurses to fuck right off after the first night) and hooked up to all sorts of machinery that was obviously designed to save the nurses’ time; but ended up taking probably just as much time to fix when equipment broke or didn’t work as expected. IMO hospitals have an over-automation problem. We need to go back to focusing on patient care rather than relying on complex systems to manage it.

arkades 7y ago
> hooked up to all sorts of machinery that was obviously designed to save the nurses’ time; No. We use that equipment because when shit goes sideways, I want to be able to glance at a monitor and know all your vitals, not have someone take up a critical bedside spot trying to measure things, or to start attaching measurement equipment. I want that spot devoted to someone that can be involved in intubation, giving medication, performing CPR, or attaching a defibrillator.
JetSpiegel 7y ago
> IMO hospitals have an over-automation problem. We need to go back to focusing on patient care rather than relying on complex systems to manage it. This is Trump's "planes are too complicated" argument. So instead of having a machine reading your vitals, what's the alternative? A nurse asking what is your current SpO2 and committing it to memory only?