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Originally Posted by blazey
Don't they have curtains to cover your dignity? And bed covers?
Am I missing something? As far as I have ever been aware, you are clothed when you are visible in the hospital and sit in your bed eating, reading, watching the telly etc.
Who's to say there is even any dignity of being visible to the same sex? I dont even strip off in the changing room, so being in with all women wouldn't make me feel anymore dignified if I had a problem with the wards.
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This might be the case in some cases Blazey but not all.
My mother has had a heart attack followed by a stroke and has now lost her speach amongst other things.
She doesn't have her own nightie on anymore, she wears a hosptial gown which barely covers her, but that is so the nurses can see to her better (access for blood pressure and bloods and other things).
She also is not mentally stable at the moment, and thinks nothing of throwing her bed covers off.
She is in a side ward at the moment as she has an infection, but before that she was in a bay on a ward with only women in. That was fine, as the other women were fine with her. If she had been in a ward with men then it would have been a different story.
A patients dignity should be the paramount importance.
Not all patients are able to cover themselves up and sit on there bed and read magazines and watch television. I wish my mother could
