Eating Takeaway In A Hospital Waiting Room Do You See It As Unreasonable

[Warrior96]

So long story short I ended up with an infected ear piercing and had to see an out of hours doctor at the hospital. My life medical problems always seem to happen on a Saturday or Sunday! Due to it is known to be a nasty infection I was admitted onto the ears nose and throat ward, it was average time 5-6 hours to see a doctor it took me 5 hours. In the meantime in the waiting room a couple sat next to me bought a KFC into the waiting room. I can understand people can get hungry with the long wait but there were a number of nauseous people in that waiting room. I feel they were being a bit selfish and could have bought something more appropriate.

AIBU?

You can have takeaways in hospital if you’re an inpatient.
I don’t see the difference with a waiting room.

Im a vegetarian and have spent the last 40 plus years smelling cooked flesh eaten by others so once more is just life to me.

Gosh, if I was well enough to be thinking about takeaway, I wouldn’t be sat in A and E at all.

Gosh, well, you might if you were an 84yo cancer patient with Alzheimer's and a broken hip who had been on a trolley for 32 hours with nothing.

The ignorance is staggering.

What if it's closed? And the shop is closed? And the vending machine is broken or empty?

I'm afraid I'm still firmly in the 'will not eat in a medical setting' (outside designated eating areas), full stop.

And as I and many others have said, something hot, smelly and messy is totally unacceptable. If you are desperate (not just hungry or a bit peckish) then something simple to minimise inducing vomiting on the sick people around you.

The hospital have a duty to provide food to those patients and if they aren’t, that needs addressed with the hospital trust!! Takeaway food is grim anyway and very unhealthy.

Arent other establishments open during those 32 hours?

Last time I was in A&E for about 14 hours I was accompanying my dad (in his 80s). He wasn't thinking about food - but couldn't be left - and I was starving. I did end up having a muesli bar from the vending machine in the end, but can well imagine a situation where that wasn't available.

I wouldn't have a problem with someone discreetly eating a sandwich or something non-smelly, but a stinky, greasy takeaway that everyone can smell? Bleugh! Totally unreasonable and antisocial IMO.

A and e / the hospital is a Saturday night out for some people. Pulp should have added „and visit Blackburn royal infirmary „ onto the end of the dance and drink and screw line of Common people.

Great, next time my dad is rushed to hospital in the middle of the night and then left on a trolley in pain for 32 hours, I'll tell him to stop asking for food, I'm too busy "addressing it with the hospital trust" to get him anything.

It must be nice living in your world. Where are you getting that simple thing when everything in the hospital is closed, the hospital isn't providing anything to eat and all that's available is fast food?

Well not really, it sounds like you’d go and buy crap food instead, and stink the place out with it.

Yes people should just starve. How ignorant and small minded.

Doesn't the hospital cafe open in the morning?

Bread and water

Except my DH. The mid wives loved him when DS was born and he ate like a king 😂 “oh brunettemic’s DH, do you want this meal that got left? There’s ice cream with it!” Think he wanted me to stay in longer 😂

This would just really make me want a KFC!

I ended up with McDonalds as my first post birth meal. At the point I was done had missed ward dinner (5pm) all hospital shops closed and every garage in a mile radius of the hospital was out of sandwiches - DH looked. Being after 4pm on a Sunday literally nothing else was open so it was that or nothing..

Agree with this. There really is no excuse. So utterly inconsiderate.

There are plenty of ways to assuage hunger without bringing hot, smelly, greasy food into an enclosed area with ill people. No one is going to starve to death if they go without meat for any number of hours. Find a cheese sandwich or an energy bar.

I've smelt worse things in an A&E tbh.

Having most recently spent 15 hours in an A&E waiting room waiting to be seen I wouldn't begrudge anyone eating anything!

Unless you can't have gluten or dairy, in which case a burger and chips is often the only thing you can eat.

Also lol at "ask the nurse to get you a sandwich" or "get the receptionist to nip out". There aren't enough staff in A&Es to actually treat people, much less do a sarnie run.

Dh was in A&E waiting room for 30 hours last week with heart issues. 30 hours on a chair. Went in three pm on the Sunday, came out 6pm on Monday. The water jugs were empty more often that full. I brought him food and tea from Costa and M and S, but personally I think he could have eaten whatever he bloody wanted.

Edit - I think my maths is wrong there - somewhere between 26 and 30 hours anyway!

Don’t see a problem with it at all. I would do it and it wouldn’t bother me if other people needed to eat.