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Privacy on the Hospital Ward

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Caleo Fri 13-Jan-23 18:32:30

I know , Aveline! I can remember actual conversations from decades ago.

That old hospital has now been replaced with a new much larger one with small wards of well -spaced beds no more than three in a room.

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Aveline Fri 13-Jan-23 14:30:26

You have a long memory! The ward where I volunteer has single rooms only all with ensuites.

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Caleo Fri 13-Jan-23 14:27:22

In 2002 I was recovering in hospital from major bowel surgery, The ward happened to be an old fashioned Nightingale ward, open style.
Two doctors came around with a trolley carrying case notes. A doctor asked me from a distance of eight feet away if I had passed wind from my anus. A male visitor at the bedside of the woman next to me made a dirty joke at the top of his voice about me farting. The doctors laughed

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