I am in hospital. Hospitals are bad now…. Poor quality healthcare. Stay TF away.

I am currently fighting pneumonia at home because my doctor did not want to send me for this reason. My chances are better off at home.

There are no " the nurses". You are sharing one RN with 10 other patients and she is run off her feet with stuff you don't understand.

The staff you see hanging around in the hallway are not nurses, they are minimum wage workers who have no health care training and cannot help with anything. They certainly are not going to get pressed into being assistant nurses nor try to help. No way. They don't care if your nurse is drowning and so overloaded with critical stuff that she cannot push past it to deal with your bullshit.

Unfortunately, the criminals in hospital management have been able to get away with slashing nurse numbers and throwing untrained, non-nursing minimum wage workers on the wards instead of nurses. They get away with it (and kill patients doing it) because you stupid fucks cannot tell the difference between a nurse and an orderly.

It's amazing how patients and visitors will observe untrained non-nursing staff in the area and think what those people are doing is somehow indicative of how busy the nurse is.

The minute I hear someone say "the nurses" I already know I am listening to a dipshit who 1) doesn't understand that they are sharing one nurse with 10 people and 2) uses the word 'nurse' to describe any staff member they see from an orderly to a lab tech. I also realize that I am talking to a dipshit that doesn't understand acuity. You are sharing your nurse with acutely ill complex people and all of your probably need you own one to one RN to get what you need when you need it and be safe. Administration will let her go to jail if any of her patients get killed because she lost time because others were on the call bell or making requests of her. As I said, the minimum wage workers hanging around on the unit don't do shit and have no liability.

Four patients per nurse is dangerous and impossible. When administrators cut down the allowed nurse numbers to make it 10 patients per nurse they did it on the orders of the CMS to save money and cause harm.

Appears to be an infection but no one will provide any details.

I am not vaxxed…. But history of infections.

Hospital is full. I spent 18 hours in the ER waiting for a room. They had no rooms anywhere in Houston area. Methodist… same. But they say very few are Covid patients. Say it is a wide variety. Volume 3x normal for this time of year. Some are gunshot wounds… several came in while I was in ER.

All true. They’ve been running nurses like a 3rd world shit hole for decades. You wouldn’t believe how nurses and therefore patients are treated in america.

I will only go to a hospital if I am literally dying and have no other choice.

Otherwise I will avoid like the plague.

Avoid at all costs.

I am in a decent facility too…. Herman memorial in The Woodlands, Texas.

I have had three meals in 72 hours. Food is good… just can’t get any.

Nurses take forever to address issues. My IV has beeped with errors for an hour. Nurses are 20 feet away and just chatting nonsense. I press the button and they don’t even answer… let it roll over to main operator who has to page. They still ignore.

Sunday thru today… four days. Every day a different hospital doctor. The doctors are in the room for a few minutes at most…. One for less than 30 seconds. I don’t get the same answer twice, ever…. Hey are clueless. Can’t make any progress. Can’t get any information on test results. They are drawing blood and doing all this crap… well, what are the results.

I told them to discharge me…. Doctor came in and said he would not, I would have to leave on my own against medical advice. Big argument. My brother is a doctor in Florida - he called in and made some progress so I am going to stay here for now.

They come in three times to scan bed…. So worried about it being stolen. They scan the IV machine three days in a row too… so worried about that. But the bed sheets never changed. The towel in the bathroom has been wet and on the floor three days… they don’t care about that.

Seriously…. If I had known I would have just killed myself instead of go through this crap.

And I have not had an American born nurse yet. One American born floor assistant. One just off the boat from Haiti barely speaks English.

This place is a joke.