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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Lord Darzi says that we would have to build a whole new lot of hospitals to ensure tha people were nursed on same sex wards.....what a load of Tosh that is.
Just suppose there are two medical wards....ward A......and ward B.......designate Ward A as female medical, and ward B as male medical......problem solved.
Blazey curtains may cover the dignity of sight, but not of sound......imagine a constipated old man trying to relieve his bowels.......get the picture.
As for being clothed, there are always times when patients are in a state of undress, and they may be confused by drugs, illness, or anaesthesia......this is when the covers are thrown off and bare bottoms are shown to all the world....not much dignity there.
I have known several old fellers who have walked around advertising their wedding tackle too.
Mixed sex wards should be abolished.
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Ah well fair enough, I guess there are situations you could feel humiliated, though in my opinion it doesn't solve the problem of dignity. I dont want to show my bits to man or woman, but thats just one of the things that occurs inb hospital. I try to think that everyone has one so its nothing to be ashamed of. I thought women more than anything would be more conditioned than men about this due to smears, giving birth etc.
I haven't given birth but I watched my mother have my brother before anyone says 'what would you know' about giving birth.
There are worse situations of people losing their dignity than being in hospital after all. I have been in hospital and I cant say I was at all bothered about using the bed pan for all to hear. In fact I wasn't sure how your meant to position yourself over them so i found it rather amusing at the time. Embarrassing situations make me giggle nervously.
As for smears, I let people watch it being done for training purposes for my first one. Not quite dignified having your legs spread eagle for one nurse to peer in without letting several more trainees have a good look too, and believe me they watched so very attentively
