Comments on: Surgery and Initial Recovery at Lutheran http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/03/12/surgery-and-initial-recovery-at-lutheran/ My story and random thoughts while dealing with a C6-C7 subluxation... Wed, 19 May 2010 03:35:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: chris http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/03/12/surgery-and-initial-recovery-at-lutheran/comment-page-1/#comment-50 chris Wed, 07 May 2008 02:21:24 +0000 http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/03/12/surgery-and-initial-recovery-at-lutheran/#comment-50 Yep, I do. Fortunately, Sinai charges $6/day for phone service, $7/day for television.... and gives away Internet access for free. Having the ability to communicate with people outside the hospital has really made things a lot easier here. All my blogging here has been from the bed. :) Yep, I do. Fortunately, Sinai charges $6/day for phone service, $7/day for television…. and gives away Internet access for free. Having the ability to communicate with people outside the hospital has really made things a lot easier here. All my blogging here has been from the bed. :)

]]> By: e-Patient Dave (deBronkart) http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/03/12/surgery-and-initial-recovery-at-lutheran/comment-page-1/#comment-49 e-Patient Dave (deBronkart) Wed, 07 May 2008 01:11:11 +0000 http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/03/12/surgery-and-initial-recovery-at-lutheran/#comment-49 p.s. After I posted that, I realized you kinda must have Internet access too, given that you're posting... p.s. After I posted that, I realized you kinda must have Internet access too, given that you’re posting…

]]> By: e-Patient Dave (deBronkart) http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/03/12/surgery-and-initial-recovery-at-lutheran/comment-page-1/#comment-47 e-Patient Dave (deBronkart) Mon, 05 May 2008 03:45:48 +0000 http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/03/12/surgery-and-initial-recovery-at-lutheran/#comment-47 Charging for TV?? That's *bizarre*. I thought that was long gone. Same for the crummy food. At Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess the food is diverse, made to order (really) and available 24/7. TV is free, though their remotes are that blasted kind where all it can do is "next next next," so if you miss your channel you have to run through the whole thing. The hospital is very forward-thinking in many ways, but there's still a glaring deficit: at discharge time, nobody knows where their wheelchairs are. They all disappear. Amazing. So they're talking about putting RFID chips on the chairs and other ephemerals. But guess what else they have: FREE FREAKIN' WIRELESS throughout the place. Like, my family posting online updates while I was in surgery, me blogging from my bed, etc. Not to mention IM'ing and email, which did a lot to diminish the sense of having entered a No Man's Land divorced from reality. Charging for TV?? That’s *bizarre*. I thought that was long gone.

Same for the crummy food. At Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess the food is diverse, made to order (really) and available 24/7. TV is free, though their remotes are that blasted kind where all it can do is “next next next,” so if you miss your channel you have to run through the whole thing.

The hospital is very forward-thinking in many ways, but there’s still a glaring deficit: at discharge time, nobody knows where their wheelchairs are. They all disappear. Amazing. So they’re talking about putting RFID chips on the chairs and other ephemerals.

But guess what else they have: FREE FREAKIN’ WIRELESS throughout the place. Like, my family posting online updates while I was in surgery, me blogging from my bed, etc. Not to mention IM’ing and email, which did a lot to diminish the sense of having entered a No Man’s Land divorced from reality.

]]> By: Kristina http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/03/12/surgery-and-initial-recovery-at-lutheran/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Kristina Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:36:49 +0000 http://sci.chrismcculloh.com/2008/03/12/surgery-and-initial-recovery-at-lutheran/#comment-3 For the record... You had a tv in SICU and you watched it the entire last two days there. :) but you complained nothing good was on. Oddly enough they don't charge you for the TV in SICU. For the record… You had a tv in SICU and you watched it the entire last two days there. :) but you complained nothing good was on. Oddly enough they don’t charge you for the TV in SICU.

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