People need to stop shaming hospitals for giving patients "unhealthy" food: 1. Food can be very disease-specific 2. Hospitals are full of very sick people who deserve a break from caring about anything other than getting better
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You'd better believe I'd ask for a plate of fries if I had a massive infection and had to be on IV antibiotics for a week
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Replying to @GidMK
By your logic I should be able to ask my orderly for a bottle of bourbon and a couple lines of coke also.
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Replying to @Eric_OGrey @GidMK
Ambulant pts in hospital still smoke (and non-ambulant ones often have family that take them outside)... orderlys aren’t involved in dispensing anything to pts anyway so that logic is null and void
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Replying to @tonsoffun @GidMK
Hospitals don’t provide cigarettes and no hospital in America has a cigarette machine. For the same reason, hospitals should not serve unhealthy food or lease space to McD, Chik Fil A, and similar vendors. You want to kill yourself with that food, have a relative bring it to you.
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Replying to @Eric_OGrey @GidMK
And as a nurse and frequent patient myself (with swallowing, mastication and immunosuppressant issues) there are VERY good reasons hospitals DO serve food you would deem unhealthy
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Replying to @tonsoffun @GidMK
You can be served as a one-off with RD support. Do you agree that your circumstances involve a small percentage of patients rather than the rule? I'm talking about the general practice of hospitals serving junk foods to patients with lifestyle disease caused by eating junk foods.
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Replying to @Eric_OGrey @tonsoffun
But the point is that 90% of people in hospitals are "one-off" cases. Hospitals collect the highest acuity cases, the sickest people, not the people who need to change their diet now
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For example, ~10% of people admitted to hospitals I've worked at are significantly underweight. Many are frail and elderly to boot. Getting them to eat anything can be a win!
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