Hospital food
Last week I was an inpatient in a public hospital. The food was very poor. One of the doctors looking after me, told me that the local health service attempts to feed patients for $2 per day. I wa...
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I spent a total of 56 days and nights as a public patient in a large Sydney teaching hospital, just during chemo. I returned for just short of a month for bilateral mastectomy (including 11 days in ICU...long story). I subsequently spent three weeks for major neurosurgery. I was given a menu to fill out daily (for the next day) and although very bland and unexciting, was acceptable. Two things I learned to steer clear of was so called plain omelette...reconstituted egg turned solid rubber...swimming in a pool of tepid water and the magnificent "Fish with sauce" ....something that previously lived in water, covered with elephant snot...(or so it looked and smelled like). I do have to admit sending my hubby to the franchised restaurant for take away curry and rice.