I’m truly curious. Not even trying to complain, I understand the hospitals are full but like what takes so long to print paperwork?
UPDATE: Thank you all for your input and responses, it definitely helped the time pass by. We are home now. I do understand waiting is not suffering but at some point something has to give. We have an infant and toddler who had to be left with family and we were anxious to get home to them. I understand we are not the only people who have ever had to wait for discharge. I was truly curious as to what the hold up is. After getting incoming responses seeming to state that this is normal, it all got to me. This should not be normal and the patient, critical or not, should not have to get the short end of the stick. Reality or not. In a perfect world I guess.
Sorry to all the underpaid, over worked staff.
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Hospitals are marvels of logistics. I’ve had a triple bypass and a kidney transplant (with complications that landed me two more weeks in the hospital). Everything does take a long time (my mother and I joke about “HT,” which is “hospital time,” like when they tell you to show up at 7 a.m., but don’t get you in for your procedure until 3 in the afternoon), but when you think about all the people and departments involved (especially now that so many have burned out and left the healthcare system), and everything that needs to be done to care for you, it’s a miracle to me that hospitals work at all. It’s frustrating and annoying to just sit there and wait, but there are hundreds of patients also needing care, and dozens who are waiting for discharge, too. I’m in awe of hospital workers.
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