Having just finished four days of hospitalization for an upper GI problem, I can once again testify to the fact that a hospital is no place for a sick person to be. I wrote about this last year in my local newspaper, and also posted the piece here. As I said in the comments under that post, I have boundless respect for nurses and the other people involved in taking care of hospitalized people, but the system as a whole seems to be directed at making patients as miserable as possible, which makes the plight of nurses even more difficult.