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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostNo, the wards are cleaned every day - takes about forty five minutes per ward (four beds). Apparently there was talk of cutting the cleaning budget, but the medical director said "over your dead body". (or something).Choice of menus too.
My only grouse was that they woke you up too early. Sans internet (no laptop in my case) it was boring enough without an early start - I even watched the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in many years.
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Originally posted by rhubarb View PostMobile phones and 3g are allowed in UK hospitals now. My daughter was in back in November and they had no problem with using phones and the ipad.
I suspect they don't allow such things around intensive care units though. Perhaps they do....don't know!
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post...
But do you get free MRSA like we do on the NHS?...
The hernia repair was key-hole surgery (TEP), so recovery is comparatively quick. Just three little cuts, with a stitch apiece.
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostI cannot stand the tension any longer. It is driving me insane.
At some point, AtW will start a thread "whine in hospital" and the anticipation is now utterly unbearable.
Back on topic - I'm sure when I was picking BUPA plans, the big-money option had a bullet point about wine lists with the hospital food.
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostWhen I was last in hospital in the UK (1981) I got a bottle of red wine and a four pack of Guinness twice a week on prescription (during the pill round.) Because I had lost so much blood and weight, this was determined as the best way to build me up. The trouble was I don't like red wine and at the time I didn't like Guinness so used to trade it on the ward for other beers.
It worked, though possibly not quite as intended. He put a lot of weight on and that probably helped his bones to knit more than anything else.
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostThat must be because there is no equipment in Swiss hospitals. Over here we're not allowed to use our own comms equipment because it interferes with the highly sensitive, leading edge, life preserving equipment we have. Which is why we have to use their £5 per minute phone lines in the wards, have pay-per-view TV and the unusable dedicated internet terminals.
It couldn't possibly be because we are being lied to and ripped off.
Decent library with English books, free newspapers, and nicely coloured duvet covers - it was more like a hotel.
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Hospitals will keep bottles of whiskey and/or vodka on the wards as it's the approived treatment for poisoning by drinking antifreeze or similar ethanol based substances.
Unfortunately it's likely to be Tesco's value rather than Beluga Gold.
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Originally posted by rhubarb View PostI suspect they don't allow such things around intensive care units though. Perhaps they do....don't know!
They wouldn't let me be disconnected from the bleepy machine for long enough to go for a piss, but they had no problem with me using my phone.
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I cannot stand the tension any longer. It is driving me insane.
At some point, AtW will start a thread "whine in hospital" and the anticipation is now utterly unbearable.
It won't be funny, it won't get any replies, but the utter inevitability is exceeding my patience.
FFS, AtW, GET ON WITH IT!
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When I was last in hospital in the UK (1981) I got a bottle of red wine and a four pack of Guinness twice a week on prescription (during the pill round.) Because I had lost so much blood and weight, this was determined as the best way to build me up. The trouble was I don't like red wine and at the time I didn't like Guinness so used to trade it on the ward for other beers.
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostThat must be because there is no equipment in Swiss hospitals. Over here we're not allowed to use our own comms equipment because it interferes with the highly sensitive, leading edge, life preserving equipment we have. Which is why we have to use their £5 per minute phone lines in the wards, have pay-per-view TV and the unusable dedicated internet terminals.
It couldn't possibly be because we are being lied to and ripped off.
I suspect they don't allow such things around intensive care units though. Perhaps they do....don't know!
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