While I was admitted to the hospital, while waiting for surgery, I was taken to the waiting room. I chose a 2-person room with a price of 1.5 million VND/day at Hue Central International Hospital with the hope of receiving better care and also to rest during my sick days. Because the Orthopedic Surgery Department was full, I was temporarily transferred to the Obstetrics Department. Of course, the staff asked for the patient's opinion, but there was no other choice, so I had to accept. Actually, at that time, the most important thing was how to get the surgery quickly, the room was not important.

Entering the room, I was quite surprised to see that the bed next to me was a man over 50 years old who had an accident while helping the staff carry heavy objects. He had undergone surgery and was temporarily waiting to be transferred to another room. After the surgery, I was transferred back to this room. Although I was quite sore and weak due to not eating anything for more than a day and a night, I just wanted to take a nap, but I have trouble sleeping, and even the slightest noise would make me unable to sleep. The patient next to me seemed more "carefree". Not only did he sleep well, but he also snored loudly, making it impossible for me to sleep well all night. However, that was nothing compared to the fact that he kept his phone on all day and night, plus his wife who was with him was equally passionate about social networks. It would not have been worth mentioning if those people had been a little more considerate and turned up the speaker volume just enough to not disturb the person next to him. Luckily, around 10 pm, they also turned off their phones to go to sleep, only then could I breathe a sigh of relief.

I didn't have time to celebrate because the next morning the nurse informed me that he was transferred to another room, so I could sleep peacefully alone to make up for the previous night, but around noon, the staff also informed me that they would transfer me to the correct department to return the room to the Obstetrics patient.

At this department, I was assigned to share a room with a woman from Lao Bao ( Quang Tri ), who came to Hue to treat calcification in her arm. Her house was far away, so her family had to follow her to stay and take care of her. Because her house was far away, few people visited her, so except when the doctor was examining her, the rest of the time both the patient and her family competed to watch movie reviews on their phones. It is worth mentioning that both of them were "passionate" about sound, turning up the volume as loud as possible, making me extremely uncomfortable lying next to them. What was more annoying was that not only during the day, but at any time, as soon as she woke up, she watched movie reviews. One day at 3am she watched movie reviews until 7am, while the previous night she was still awake at 12am with the above-mentioned passion. During those days, I not only had trouble sleeping but also got stressed by the boring monotone voice of the AI.

I was mentally terrorized to the point where I couldn't take it anymore and had to ask the doctor to let me leave the hospital early and pay for the extra cost of hiring a nurse to take care of my wound at home. Relatives and friends who heard me talk about how I was bothered by patients and their families said why didn't they give me gentle advice? I think if people had good awareness, knowing that it was a public environment, a shared room, and everyone paid the same, they wouldn't have acted like that. But for people who lack awareness and don't respect the common space, it's useless for me to remind them. Like not drying clothes in the bathroom, even though the medical staff had reminded me many times, the female patient still ignored it and didn't comply, even drying them in a very offensive way. Knowing that I had an accident on my leg and couldn't walk, I had to use crutches and could easily slip and fall, they still deliberately took a bath and poured water on the bathroom floor. That's enough to understand what kind of person they are. So the best solution is to change rooms or ask to be discharged early if possible.

In fact, the lack of awareness in public places is not strange. What is shared is rarely consciously preserved. In the hospital environment, it is even more complicated because there are all kinds of people and ages. Although they have chosen to be treated at Hue Central International Hospital - a place with quite high costs that not everyone can afford. However, not all luxurious places, for those with money, their awareness also increases accordingly. Like the cases I just mentioned, although sometimes over the phone they can be heard bragging about big houses and billion-dollar assets, their awareness of the common environment is... not up to the starting line.

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