At the Hospital

My father has been admitted to the Sunnybrook Hospital due to a blood infection or Sepsis. Sepsis is a

condition in which your body is fighting a severe infection. If you become "septic," you will likely be in a state of low blood pressure termed "shock." This condition can develop either as a result of your body's own defense system or from toxic substances made by the infecting agent (such as a bacteria, virus, or fungus).

My father has sepsis due to a bacterial infection. Exactly what kind of bacteria is yet to be determined. Thus the use of an all around anti-biotic: Amoxicillin.

Being at the hospital:

1. The nurses all equally avoid eye contact or any sign of personality. It is probably a professional hazard to show you care as one needy patient can be difficult enough, but a floor full of needy people, in the long term, would, I'm sure, lead to burnout.
Thus, all the nurses avoid eye contact, refuse to smile with patients and family members, appear very matter of fact and blase about most everything.
Approach the nurse's station and you will find the 'he who smelt it, dealt it' rule in effect. That is, the first nurse to be foolish/kind enough to look up gets nailed with a patient's request for this or that.
The nurses are, after all, only here to look after the patients, but not to only look after the patients.

2. They allow family members to remain in the patient's room but have a single non-reclining chair. You would think that having a family member around to take care of the little things makes life easier for the nurses, so why not make people reasonably comfortable while they're present acting like hired hands?