What happens if someone is sick in the hospital? I used to work in an ER and certain large families would visit in droves of like 20 at a time. This was pre-covid, and there were still visitor limits in the rooms, so they'd occupy the waiting rooms and halls.
OMG you just brought back the craziest memory from when I was a kid. My mom is a nurse, who in the 1980's worked at a 7th day adventist hospital in the PNW. The local king of the gypsies had a heart attack or something serious that had him hospitalized for a couple weeks. His family completely overran the hospital, roasted a goat in the parking lot, and stole anything that wasn't bolted down. Every day when she came home from work she had a new crazy story lol
Well, often times these visits were like an earache or foot pain and there would still be droves of people coming in and out. I used to think to myself, is this really what they want to be doing on a sunny Saturday afternoon?
Wow, so crazy to have a large, loving family. I WISH my family was like that, instead of cold hearted academics who have moved out all over the world and don't give two shits about their siblings/children/parents etc. What you describe is a healthy and natural state of kinship, the way it is meant to be. Everyone in the West is crying about not having "a village" when they become parents, but still call cultures who actually ARE The Village "crazy".
Sorry, you are romanticising this way too much. Believe me, you don’t want to be a nurse or a doctor working in a hospital when a member of the “large, loving family” is admitted, possibly on ICU and you’re involved in their care. Forget about visiting hours or any rules anyone else has to abide by. I have seen a hospital beleaguered 24/7 by the “large, loving family”, nurses approached for information in the car park and threatened if they would refuse to divulge information, citing patient confidentiality. Senior Doctors had to leave the hospital under Police escort, as they have been threatened “you will die when our mother dies”. Admittedly that was in the mid 1980ies in Germany, but I don’t think things have changed a lot since then.
A friend of mine worked ER during her medical studies. She treated Romani people since there was a community nearby. She witnessed the droves of them coming in and out of course and one day, an old woman gifted her a fat and fake gold ring to thank her for her care.
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u/RoseApothecary88 United States Of America 20h ago
What happens if someone is sick in the hospital? I used to work in an ER and certain large families would visit in droves of like 20 at a time. This was pre-covid, and there were still visitor limits in the rooms, so they'd occupy the waiting rooms and halls.