why are there some people who dont like visiting others in the hospital?

Answer 1

A lot of times we don't know what to say to the person that's in there. Most of the time especially if their going into surgery...we all tell them including myself that it will be ok, but in reality...it might not be ok....things happen...all people in the medical field are still practicing, and that's why many places are called Family Practice Doctors or Family Practice Centers...so in reality they are still Practicing!!! When I look at it in that way...it's sorta scary.

When I think of a Hospital...I don't think of healing or getting better...I think of pain...blood...death...agony...complications...the bill...which deffinitly over rides the thoughts of healing for me. It's also a pain for many before they get to the hospital...and it starts at the Dr's office...they want me to be there at 10am and I'm there and it takes 30 - 45 minutes or longer to see him....and by the time I do see him I am MAD!!! Most things in life I have to be on time...if I'm late at work I can get written up for it...if I'm late at the airport the plane doesn't wait, and I better not be late for court even if they don't take me right away....etc, but with doctor appointment it's different....and on that same line the doctor will have the appointment for 3-5 different people at the same time...and the doctor can't see all at the same time...so whats going on with that??? I don't know. So, if they disrespected me from the office...their not going to respect me in the Hospital either. Another thing I don't like is the medical terminology that they use...I want spoken to on my level...not theirs. So...all in all...I down right don't like Hospitals.

Answer 2

This is a good question. I have a little girl who is almost 16 months. She has spent all of her life in and out of hospitals. Two surguries, countless procedures, at least 15 times we've been hospitalized and it is always amazing to me the reaction different family members have about coming to the hospital, because almost every one has issues about coming and staying and after this time I have begun to see that a lot of it is uncertianty and uncomfortablity. No one ever knows what to do, what to ask, what to talk about. If they should talk about what's going on, if they should talk to my little daughter or let her rest, there are people who wait for her to come home and then will visit us but haven't even seen her at the hospital. I think there is also the fact that they never seem to know what they are trying to do, who it is that they are trying to help they usually ask a lot of questions about how my little daugher is and when I go on and explain what's going on I get a glazed over experssion.

So I would like to say that visiting is for company. You don't need to find out all the details of what's going on, what doc wants to do what test, it's not like visiting someone at home. Just come in smile and ask what you can do for the patient. Do you know how stressful it is to live at a hospital? To eat hospital food, wash clothes, fill up hampers with soiled and bloody blankets? Just smile and wish everyone the best and make the paitent laugh, take their mind off why they're there. Don't think of the nasty hospital smell and other people around and the moniters and chords, checking them out just makes everyone acutly aware of why they are there. For most people hospitals are such an unknown and scary place, don't bring that baggage with you. Just smile and bring a book or a movie or a newspaper with you, stay for a while and be good company. Just remember who it is you are there for, you don't go to hospitals because they are a fun place to hang out, you go because someone you love is hurting and needs a friend, that's it. If you don't love them, don't go, if you love them then, please pay them a visit.

Answer 3

Hospitals make some people very uncomfortable. Just walking into a hospital is enough to make a friend of mine break into a sweat. Something about the smell, or just the thought of so many sick people and needles inside.... or some people don't like the thought of their friend or family member looking sick or weak like all people look in the hospital. It's kind of sad and awkward to visit someone in the hospital.

Answer 4

Several reasons:

1) they may have previously been a patient in a hospital and the sounds, smells and experience brings back negative memories

2) they may have difficulty handling situations where they are faced with people in pain or are suffering (especially as they are not in a position to help those people)

3) hospitals are very often where people die - and facing our mortality is for many people the most difficult thing of all

Answer 5

I don't like visiting the hospital for many reason. To me it smells like death and I can hear things, that probably other people can't hear or see.

When my father died that really did it for me going to the hospital is just totally freaked me out. Then six months later my husband was in the hospital for the same disease my father died off and his hospital room in the er was straight across from the room where my father died. I just couldn't stay there. I had to get out before my husband saw me freak out.

I left the hospital and just broke down. I was fine once they put in him the ICU upstairs. I just can't do the ER.

Not only there are people in the ER who cough don't cover there mouths, wipe there snots on there jackets and it just gross.

Answer 6

Some things are inevitable.
Death and taxes and all that life is in between.
They can see themselves in a hospital room or nursing home with no comforters so they stay away because they don’t want to be part oft the solution.
Remaining as part of the on going problem is less work.

Answer 7

Some people get very squeamish when it comes to hospitals and don't like to see people in pain. Others may have had a very bad experience in the hospital.

Answer 8

A friend told me she never visited me in the hospital because everyone she knew that went to the hospital (before me) died there.

Answer 9

It's an unpleasant atmosphere and some people think more about themselves than the patient in the hospital bed .

Answer 10

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