Goodbye Lover – DivX Version (Normal Quality), DVD (Good Quality), PDA Version
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IMDB rating: 5.50 Plot: Ben and Sandra are hot and provocative lovers, but Sandra is unfortunately married to Ben’s younger brother Jake, and soon Jake will find out about Ben. |
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Actors: Mulroney Dermot,McKinnon Ray,Rocco Alex,Johnson Don,Gregory Andre,Neville John,Cooney Kevin,Stewart Will,Thriller,Comedy,Crime,
Why Do We Have Hospital Visitation Rules In The First Place?
There’s so many problems involved in getting hospital visitation rights for, say, same-sex partners or unmarried partners, or for one’s multiple partners, but I don’t think I really understand why hospital visitation rules (regarding your relation to the patient) matter at all.
I understand that having too many people in a trauma emergency room is a problem, or having someone there at the wrong time. But why should that have anything to do with whether two people are related or immediate family or married and so on? Why can’t the rules allowing for safety and health of the patient exist without identifying the people and the nature of the relationships?
If someone had nobody else in their life but a good friend- not even a partner/lover, even- why should that friend be denied the ability to see them and say goodbye as they die?
I just don’t get it, and if anybody can explain, please do.
Good question!
In my hospital patients can have a reasonable amount of visitors during visiting hours once they are able to decide for themselves who they want to visit themselves (ie be conscious and make this choice themslves) and are not too disruptive or obstructive. We usually only allow two people at a time becuase it just gets too cluttered and noisy and difficult for us to do our job.
Alot of these rules comes down to the patients right to privacy, confidentiality and there need for rest. When you are in hospital you are vulnerable, have little privacy and are frequently sleep deprived; why make it worse by every man and his dog coming in to "visit". Imagine trying to recover and having some random aquaintance standing over your bed?
I agree that friends should be able to "say goodbye", they are a big part of your life and are a big comfort to a dying person and i find it a shame that anyone would be denied the opportunity to visit a loved one over a stupid technicality. I have never denied a patient a visitor unless it was not in the best interests of the patient at that time.
We also have a duty of care to protect the patient form unnecessary stressors (sometimes in the form of visitors). I once had a patient who had his leg crushed in a work accident being bullied in the ER by a "friend" (actually his boss) into not claiming the acident as a workers compensation incident.
Does this answer your question?
Chris- Registered Nurse
Mach_RN | Oct 18, 2009
I don’t know either but it might be because by law only family can make decisions for you and even though you may be a good friend the hospital may not know that and they don’t want strangers bothering the patients. I think that maybe your lover, friend, or whomever needs to let the hospital know that you are allowed to visit them.
9121 you dipsh*t | Oct 18, 2009
Visitation rules vary hospital to hospital.
The rules were designed to limit the number of people who could see a patient (for the patient’s sake). Sometimes too many people wear out patients. Also, too many visitors might crowd or overwhelm the hospital and its staff.
When my mother was in a hospital, the Haitian woman in the next bed required a religious ceremony to drive out the disease. A crowd of Haitians gathered in the room, some sitting on my mother’s hospital bed (mom too sick to object after open-heart surgury–just out of post-op intensive care). They waved talismans, shouted, chanted, and for hours invoked spirits of the underworld, shaking my mom’s hospital bed.
Though there was a solarium for visitors to use, they chose not to use it for the ceremony.
It seems to me that the patient should be allowed to let a select few people visit, and should also be allowed to deny visitation to certain individuals.
I don’t think that harmful people should be allowed to visit a hospital patient who repeatedly demanded no visitation from them. Yet, many hospitals (such as Kaiser Permanente) have an "all or none" rule, which does not allow patients to select which people are not allowed to visit, despite written requests to the contrary in the Directive to Physician.
TardisAndTheHare | Oct 18, 2009
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