thats what they are for - Page 2

[CathMac]

Originally Posted by mamajake

... To put the story in a little more context, the hospital had a strict "no non-employees" policy about the recovery room. ... The hospital stood by the policy which I knew was motivated entirely by the high rate of malpractice that occurs in recovery rooms and their need to keep civilians from seeing it. ...

mamajake,
What do you suppose is the cause of the high incidence of malpractice in the recovery room? You would think the hard part was over at that point.

Thanks for sharing your two stories. It just goes to show that some people really do need visual aids to get the point. And, on a more positive note, that some doctors are educable.

~Cath

[mamajake]

Originally Posted by CathMac

mamajake,
What do you suppose is the cause of the high incidence of malpractice in the recovery room? You would think the hard part was over at that point.

Thanks for sharing your two stories. It just goes to show that some people really do need visual aids to get the point. And, on a more positive note, that some doctors are educable.

~Cath

I think the malpractice may have to do with complications while people are coming out of anesthesia. Or maybe inadequate observation of patients. Or maybe things are discovered that went undiscovered in the o.r. Dunno. Excluding non-staff from recovery rooms is not a universal practice - very much hospital to hospital. It is possible that particular hospital had a bad experience and created the policy in response to it. "Risk management" departments tend to be very powerful and, almost by definition, fairly irrational.

[Mom2J]

OP, great story.

mamajake:

As a fellow surgery mom survivor, I think you're my hero. Your doc sounds wonderful!

[hannybanany]

Originally Posted by mamajake

I had a similar experience with a nurse in a hospital where my then infant son was having surgery. She kept asking me over and over for a bottle or pacifier for my son when he was in recovery because he would be upset and want to suck on something. I kept repeating that I would be nursing him as soon as he came out. I had arranged with the surgeon to get my son immediately post-op. She just couldn't get it. About the sixth time she said, "But what is he going to put in his mouth?", I opened my shirt, pulled my very large breast out of my bra, dropped my breast with a big "plop" on the counter, and said "This!". She literally ran away as if I had pulled a gun.