What scares you the most in an hospital?
By Bala
@balasri (26537)
India
17 responses
@wolfie34 (26770)
• United Kingdom
13 Jul 08
Picking up another illness from someone else! Or from horrible nasty bugs that lurk around hospitals, you hear so many horrific stories about people going in for routine appointments and operations and catching something deadly from being in hospital! You think you are safe and it's all clean and healthy in hospital but it is not! I hate hospitals at the best of times and it always makes me extra nervous wondering if I am going to pick up anything from being there or from other people! Sometimes it's like russian roulette going into hospital.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
13 Jul 08
Here are some of the facts that may cheer you up.(Sorry)
Within hours after admission, a patient's flora begins to acquire characteristics of the surrounding bacterial pool. Most infections that become clinically evident after 48 hours of hospitalization are considered hospital-acquired.
Infections that occur after the patient's discharge from the hospital can be considered to have a nosocomial origin if the organisms were acquired during the hospital stay.
Within hours of admission, colonies of hospital strains of bacteria develop in the patient's skin, respiratory tract, and genitourinary tract.
Nosocomial infections are estimated to more than double the mortality and morbidity risks of any admitted patient and probably result in as many as 70,000 deaths per year in the United States. This is the equivalent of 350,000 years of life lost in the United States.
Within hours after admission, a patient's flora begins to acquire characteristics of the surrounding bacterial pool. Most infections that become clinically evident after 48 hours of hospitalization are considered hospital-acquired.
Infections that occur after the patient's discharge from the hospital can be considered to have a nosocomial origin if the organisms were acquired during the hospital stay.
Within hours of admission, colonies of hospital strains of bacteria develop in the patient's skin, respiratory tract, and genitourinary tract.
Nosocomial infections are estimated to more than double the mortality and morbidity risks of any admitted patient and probably result in as many as 70,000 deaths per year in the United States. This is the equivalent of 350,000 years of life lost in the United States.2 people like this
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
13 Jul 08
Everything scares me at the hospital. At my age someone never knows what they could find or what might happen. I always think about if something was seriously wrong what would our kids do. The last time I spent the night in the hospital was when I fell on my head 7 yrs. ago ice skating. I had a splitting headache along with other complications and the big MRI machine along with others made it even more confusing. I had a concussion and a fractured skull. Then sent me home the following morning and I was so glad to get out of there and back to my own home.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
13 Jul 08
The bills!
No actually being serious for a minute... when you are in the hospital you are at the mercy of the doctors... sometimes you are so beat up (car wreck or accident) that you can't think for yourself or you are undergoing some test where they put you to sleep and then slice you open like meat.
There are miracles that happen everyday at hospitals but every once in a while with those miracles come nightmares. Stories of instruments left inside people's bodies when they come out of surgery, the wrong medicine given to someone and they die from it.
There is the beginning of life and there is the end of it. There are babies being born and old people who die. All in the same place... all at the hospital.
It's the same reason we don't like police... they do a lot of good but you don't want to get a ticket or be arrested.
Thanks
Zelo
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Jul 08
I hate having to sit in the waiting room of an emergency room. It scares me with some of the people in there who are freaky or just sick. It is also scary to see some of the emergency patients who are brought in with blood all over them.
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@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
14 Jul 08
Bala
I think the thing that scares me, troubles me the most is eager, anxious, sad eyes of the relatives and friends of the ones who are admitted.
This gets unbearable if the patient is dying. I feel vulnerable on seeing the question mark on their faces. Now how can you make them explain the irreversible loss that they are awaiting soon! I feel sad and scared to face them.
@balasri (26537)
• India
14 Jul 08
Your response has managed to bring our the anguish that has been in my mind dormant for years."Eager, anxious, sad eyes of the relatives and friends" My God my heart always bleeds at the sight.You are really special Mimpi. You always are able to bring our that has been buried in mind without anyone to spur it.Please be here and be my friend always.
You made my pleasure many fold by appreciating my BR to Wolfie.I am overwhelmed by your gesture.I just love you.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
14 Jul 08
Wolfie has made a valid point there and you have well endorsed it.
@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
15 Jul 08
Operation theatre. I always wonder what goes inside a operation theatre.
@touchnshine (2821)
• India
19 Jul 08
Injections, needles and glucose bottles are the most scary things for me in an hospital because it hurts.
@jcj_111776 (3216)
• Philippines
17 Jul 08
Hello again bala. 
The hospital can also be a very dangerous place because that is where we can easily catch a very serious disease. That's why younger kids are not allowed in most hospitals.
Anyway, to answer your question. What scares me the most inside a hospital is catching a serious disease, maybe even a fatal one. That's why whenever I need to visit a relative or someone at the hospital, as much as possible, I avoid the hallway where patients with infectious diseases are confined. I don't have a very strong immune system so I have to make sure that I avoid certain circumstances that may make me sick.
The hospital can also be a very dangerous place because that is where we can easily catch a very serious disease. That's why younger kids are not allowed in most hospitals.
Anyway, to answer your question. What scares me the most inside a hospital is catching a serious disease, maybe even a fatal one. That's why whenever I need to visit a relative or someone at the hospital, as much as possible, I avoid the hallway where patients with infectious diseases are confined. I don't have a very strong immune system so I have to make sure that I avoid certain circumstances that may make me sick. 
@Monkeyrose (2840)
• Canada
19 Jul 08
WEll usuall when you're in a hospital you are sick or someone close to you. I also feel that the atmosphere of a hospital is so depressing. Everyone is sick and down there. Even the air is kinda musty. The lights are bright.
I'm most afraid of blood and bleeding. I can't stand blood... it makes me feel queasy.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
13 Jul 08
balasri as I worked in hospitals mywhole life the only thing that scares me as a patient is getting a staph infection when I am
already ill. one can die from that really easy. other than
that I am at home in a hospital as always. Being on bedrest is another thiing that I really hate as using the bedpan is not
any fun at all.I have great admiration for the fine wo rk most nurses and doctors do and they are not thanked often enough.
@cherrytcy86 (119)
• Malaysia
13 Jul 08
nothing in the hospital scary... cause it is a place where save many people life...
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
13 Jul 08
i think its the fact that most hospitals these days are short handed and dont get to you quickly when you need something like going potty when they tell you dont get up alone. also, so many things have come out lately about hospitals making mistakes in meds and such. last time i felt better because my daughter stayed with me and i think thats what everyone should have these days. someone there to help if they dont get to you and someone to keep an eye on things.
@pixiedustforyou2008 (2422)
• United States
13 Jul 08
I would have to say needle or disease... everything scares me in a hospital and i have no reason why...
