What are the differences of the 50's and that of today of entering a hospital to be admitted?

Question

Sorry everyone here is a little more to understand my question. I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in the 50's. I went through alot of things that they don't do when you are entered into the hospital.

Answer 1

Hospitals in the 1950's had no emergency rooms, no cheerful wall paint or decor, no Intensive care units, no trauma units, few female doctors, no air conditioning, no male nurses, weak generators for electrical backup,no snack bars or cafeterias, no good food(and I mean it was ofren spoiled).
Patients were not informed about what their treatments were, what their vital signs were,and why they were given medicines.
Most hospitals were segregated in the 1950's.
Survival rates for surgery were much lower then.
Few of the treatments that are available today, were available then.

Answer 2

No computers in the 50's - everything was hand written or typed. For scheduled surgery you checked in the day before rather than the morning of.

Answer 3

Believe it or not. Hospitals are safer today then they were even 10 years ago. Cleaner and better staffed.

Answer 4

you have better chances at surviving today than being admitted in the 50s.

Answer 5

One difference was that there were still white and black hospitals.

Answer 6

Now you have to get a 2nd mortgage

Answer 7

Ummmmm, I don't get it. Have you been institutionalized lately? If not, maybe you ought to consider it.

Answer 8

Now they ask you if you are afraid on anyone in your home

Answer 9

are you trying to get a featured question or something?

Answer 10

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