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>"It's not a hotel, and it's not vacation!" So what - because it isnt a hotel patients shouldnt try to make their stay less uncomfortable? >Usually wifes and

by Tenoke 8y ago

>"It's not a hotel, and it's not vacation!" So what - because it isnt a hotel patients shouldnt try to make their stay less uncomfortable? >Usually wifes and girlfriends cutting food for male patients who have absolutely nothing wrong with their hands or minds. A hospital stay is unpleasant for most people and those close to them like doing what little they can do to make it a tiny bit better. Is that really so bad? Honestly, it is disappointing to me when I hear about medical practitioners who can't think of the patients as humans (even if cold detachment is definitely helpful in other situations).

gdhbcc 8y ago
Learned helplessness is a thing, and a big part of what helps patients recover is reducing that helplessness. It might seem rude and just pilling on someone who is already down, but from personal experience and from talking with nurses who deal with palliative care and care of elderly patients, a major indicator of whether the patient will improve or not has to do with how much they actually do for themselves. My own grandfather for example was hospitalized for a few weeks after being blinded in 1 eye. For the first 2 weeks he continuously got worse, not because of his original injury, but because of the lack of motivation direction and drive. Eventually when my father noticed his nurses were cutting his food and feeding him, he put a stop to that with a "why are they doing that for you? You still got hands, so use them". It hadn't even occurred my grandfather that he could do it himself.
- arkades 8y ago
  > Learned helplessness That's not what learned helplessness is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness