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This fellow evidently already decided that any possible criticism of his solutions is BS. He is also a political writer. Is it reasonable to draw a connection between this attitude and journalistic political discourse in the US today? I think they are part and parcel.
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Did you try earplugs and an earmask? They work wonders on (especially) daytime flights for me.
Being a hospital noob, I didn't even think of those (plus I was admitted via ER fairly suddenly and unexpectedly). Next time I know I have to stay in hospital overnight I will (or get my wife to) pack those in my overnight kit.
For both of our children, the hospital caused us more stress and discomfort than anything else. Newborn baby's finally asleep, wife is comfortable re pain, finally start to get some sleep. Then the nurse comes in at 2 am, writes her name on the board, asks us questions that they should have the answer to, then leaves. Nurse change 3x a day, baby doctor checking in to ask if were ok, mom doctor doing the same, house k…
A key lesson I learned with our first child was "just about everything gets easier once you leave the hospital", so with our second we prioritized GTFOing ASAP. It was a good decision.
We had a family room for me, my wife and the newborn. They served food, there were replacement clothes and diapers in unlimited supply, no washing etc.
With the second we opted for having only two days in the hospital because I have to deal with the bigger one going to daycare and then we had to go to the child doctor for the remaining tests since we couldn’t do all in the hospital.
If you have a good hospital I would do that over leaving early for sure.
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This makes me think about data backups. It might make sense to only get a notification if a backup failed, but then how do you know the backup system is actually functioning at all?
Regularly restoring from backup?
This is a problem that a startup I’m involved with (www.snap40.com) is tangentially aiming to solve. The prime goal isn’t really to help patients sleep better, but to help healthcare professionals monitor them better and be proactively alerted when things are deteriorating. It’s an iPhone sized (but lighter) device that’s worn on the upper arm and once you’re wearing it, you forget about it. Instead of reading vital…
so really, this is just a same-industry product plug.
This is a problem that a startup I’m involved with (www.snap40.com) is tangentially aiming to solve. The prime goal isn’t really to help patients sleep better, but to help healthcare professionals monitor them better and be proactively alerted when things are deteriorating. It’s an iPhone sized (but lighter) device that’s worn on the upper arm and once you’re wearing it, you forget about it. Instead of reading vital…
>The prime goal isn’t really to help patients sleep better ... so really, this is just a same-industry product plug.
I asked my doctor relative about this once and IIRC they basically said because hospitals are not hotels - if you're inpatient in America you're pretty sick and more than likely need periodic monitoring for your condition. As soon as you're well enough to be sleeping for long periods of time without observation you'll get bounced.
You can be a patient and be so sick of the noise that you decide you want to opt out of the monitoring - or you DIY anyway, as most hospital do not take requests kindly. I was once in ICU. The cardiac monitor was beeping loudly whenever I was starting to sleep. After the first few time woke me up in pain, I bent over and pushed the button to power off the cardiac monitor. Problem solved! I fully admitted all the risk…
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>The prime goal isn’t really to help patients sleep better ... so really, this is just a same-industry product plug.
I think you read the comment disingenuously. It is pretty clearly implying "...but it will have that effect because it neutralises the problem that the article is all about".