The World of the Hospital
...rmal everyday person is growing up, he is taught that death is not a common occurrence and should be treated with much sympathy. But in the hospital, any notion of death being sad is not found. No doctor or nurse cries when one of their patients does not make it through the operation or when a mother delivers a deformed newborn. The workers in the hospital become detached from their surroundings. To a certain point, they “get used to” uncommon situations. The author was very convincing in his argument about how the hospital is an entirely different world. I had knee surgery this past year and had to stay in the hospital for one night. There was and older lady, probably in her 60’s or 70’s, in the bed next to me. She was very sweet and I would talk to her throughout the day. That night she kept moaning, crying , and screaming, because she was in so much pain. I was scared and did not know what to do, but the nurse kept coming in about every half hou...