Unnecessary meanness

[madamesilverspurs]

Yeah, there are plenty of reasons that people hate spending time in the hospital. Having just spent a couple of days there (stupid broken ankle thing), I renewed my membership in Hospitalized Grumpies. Yes, I've gritched about this before and will likely do so again. To be perfectly clear, my doctors and nurses and therapists were superb. I just flat out hate it that, when I'm lying there trying to take my mind off the pain, I turn on the teevee only to be confronted with Fox on several channels, no MSNBC and seriously limited CNN; the local stations deteriorate into sports stories morphed into "news", and there is no way in hell I'll watch recycled episodes of Glenn Beck and Nancy Grace. O'Reilly is not my idea of intellectual stimulation, and certainly not at dinnertime.

Just seems counterproductive to spend gazillions of dollars on state-of-the-art medical facilities, not to mention the cost and time investment in training medical personnel, and then turn around and make the patients even sicker by throwing Fox at them. Nasty.

[blue sky at night]

1. feeling for you....

hard to fight the boredom without the idiot box...but our only recourse is to shut it off. I prefer radio anyway, but I need the internet to make it happen. Guess reading would be my next recourse...books on Disc are great, and the Library is free. Just some ideas to avoid the noise. Hope you are feeling better.

[Warpy]

2. Yow! At least the hospitals I worked at had the local stations

plus an in house teaching channel. Still, there were a lot of patients who wanted bible stations 24/7. I learned to ignore it.

At least they give you drugs for broken bones. Drugs can help.

[Cleita]

3. Is it the hospital? Or is in the local cable service that only puts on Fox News?

I would write a letter of complaint to the administrator if it's the hospital's fault.

[madamesilverspurs]

4. It's the hospital.

And they've received complaints in the past, including mine. But I'm told that it's a special package marketed to institutions. And airports.

[Cleita]

5. A "special package"? Now that is making a little more sense. It would

be interesting to know if it's marketed by some company that Rupert Murdoch owns.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. That is very interesting.

a 'special package" marketed to captive audiences.