Hospital Food

[Gelston]

As this was my first time in a hosital, and I had been out in the field for like two weeks before that eating MREs and shit, I thought the food was fucking delicious.

Is it really? Or was it caused by my taste buds being used to eating hammered shit for a couple weeks?

[Allereli]

As this was my first time in a hosital, and I had been out in the field for like two weeks before that eating MREs and shit, I thought the food was fucking delicious.

Is it really? Or was it caused by my taste buds being used to eating hammered shit for a couple weeks?

lol it's probably good if you're comparing it to MREs and, well, shit. Some hospitals have good food, some it's just downright scary.

[Stanley Burrell]

The cafeteria in the residents' building at Yale Medical Center has pretty good food.

[Malvadere]

I pisses me off when hospitals have fast food restaurants in the them. I just doesn't seem like they take your health seriously with a Wendy's open 24/7 next to the ER.

[CrystalTears]

The Hartford medical building has a Friendly's. Sometimes I'm tempted to walk in and get a burger and sundae. Then I remember that it takes them four hours to make anything.

[Cephalopod]

I just doesn't seem like they take your health seriously with a Wendy's open 24/7 next to the ER.

This is called being a 'full service hospital'. Get your heart attack AND defibrillation in the same spot.

[ElanthianSiren]

:lol:

You could argue the same about vending machines though really, which most hospitals have. It all depends on what kind of diet your body tolerates well.

I hate hospital food, but that may be an associative thing. Every time I've been to the hospital, it's been a case where I've almost died.

There's nothing quite like waking up from what amounts to an off and on coma with IVs jammed in every part of your body (half of which are fucked up and alarming constantly) then having some overly-cheery person bring you a plate of steamed "green beans" which in no flavor resemble green beans. In fact, they taste more like plastic. Similarly, eggs have the same suspicious plastic-y taste, I've found. I'm a very very picky eater though, and I prefer to oversee/know what's in what I'm eating.

[CrystalTears]

I've never been hospitalized. <knocks on wood>

[AnticorRifling]

I pisses me off when hospitals have fast food restaurants in the them. I just doesn't seem like they take your health seriously with a Wendy's open 24/7 next to the ER.
Yeah God forbid the burden of choice be on the individual, let's make sure that the companies only provide what they think is best for us because individuals picking their wants is bad....

[iJin]

Oh man. Hospitals by my place just give you apple juice and jello for free, you have to go and actually buy the damn food.


Meh, then again I haven't had to stay overnight for a long ass time, even then I don't remember getting food.

[Gan]

St. Lukes here in Houston has a McDonalds inside. St. Lukes is also the home of the Texas Heart Institute...

As far as hospital food. Lots of hospitals take their dining seriously and the experience can be outstanding. Other hospitals serve food on par with a prison cafeteria.

Basically its a crap shoot depending on where you go.

[Ignot]

St. Lukes here in Houston has a McDonalds inside. St. Lukes is also the home of the Texas Heart Institute...

As far as hospital food. Lots of hospitals take their dining seriously and the experience can be outstanding. Other hospitals serve food on par with a prison cafeteria.

Basically its a crap shoot depending on where you go.

really? McDonalds? that's awful. Is there a cigarette vending machine too?

[Gan]

LOL

I told my wife that she should submit an employee suggestion to have card plaquards with all the cardiologists cards on it so its an easy reference for the clientele.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

They try at my local hospital, but when I was there for a week they gave me these cards to fill out with my "choices" and I just learned to avoid anything that wasn't on the secondary list of "always available" choices. It's pretty hard to fuck up pizza, etc. I just ended up ordering the same thing everyday for the duration of my stay-- bagel for breakfast, soup with grilled cheese for lunch, and a cheeseburger with fries for dinner.

[thefarmer]

Hospital food is ok.

What's better was the 24hr Quiznoes that was in the back (they had 4 eating areas) cafeteria. My wife and I ate there at least once a day for about a week.

They also had a Starbucks, McDonalds and some sort of wrap-only place.

[diethx]

I can't remember a time when I ate hospital food. I've never been admitted for longer than a day (never spent a night), and except for this summer I haven't spent much time in any hospital for anyone else. And when I DID this summer, I didn't eat there. I was in NYC so I all I had to do was walk outside the hospital and I had pretty much my choice of anything delicious. I did eat one night in this restaurant on the top floor of the hospital where they had visitor suites set up like a hotel floor (it was an extended stay hospital), and it was really quite good, although the service was complete and total shit.

[Sean of the Thread]

The last time I was in the hospital all I ate was the applesauce until they threatened me a feeding tube.

Then it wasn't so bad.

[Asile]

St. Lukes here in Houston has a McDonalds inside. St. Lukes is also the home of the Texas Heart Institute...



Last I remember, the hospital closest to me also has a McDonald's in it and is supposed to have an outstanding cardiology department. I also wouldn't be surprised if there were a similar situation with Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (formerly the Medical College of VA), which is VERY well-known for cardiology research. (If anyone besides me follows this, VCUMC's Dr. Denato <sp?> is considered a leading expert in the field.) Go figure.

I think more hospitals are starting to realize that taste is just as important as nutrition.

Fortunately, the last time I stayed overnight in a hospital was when I was born. But, the summer before starting 9th grade, I had to go to a mandatory 4-week program at my high school, and got a ride with one of my classmates..whose mom worked at the hospital 2 blocks away from the school. So we'd get breakfast at the hospital cafeteria most mornings, and I remember it being pretty decent.

[Sean of the Thread]

The cafeteria food is much different then the food they serve the patients in almost all cases based on their nutritional needs.

When I was in for my heart attack the food was fucking awful but the guy who had knee surgery that shared one night in my room had whatever he wanted to eat.

[Gelston]

They had two tyes of food at Mission Viejo. Liquid and regular.

They had some lady that walked around and took your order for the next days meals, pretty good size menus with new "specials" daily.

[Back]

Without having read every post... I would recommend staying out of the hospital if you don’t like the food.

Of course, if you can’t avoid that, you have my sympathies.

[Sean of the Thread]

Without having read every post... I would recommend staying out of the hospital if you don’t like the food.

Of course, if you can’t avoid that, you have my sympathies.

I guess we're not all as fortunate as you blacklash.




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[Back]

I guess we're not all as fortunate as you blacklash.




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Umm, I recommended not to have it. How could I recommend not having it without having had it?

I wish I was that fortunate. Fuck sake.

[Kyra231]

Hmm the hospital I worked at had some really great food(really healthy choices also) in the cafeteria & for the patients there was a lady who had the 'fun' job of going room to room taking everyone's order personally.

We were one of the top 100 heart hospitals in the US, it's mind blowing to me that a heart hospital would put in a McDonalds :sad:

The opposing hospital across town actually had food service 24/7 & you could order whatever you wanted for as many people/visitors as you wanted any time of the day or night.

Sounds like some hospitals haven't joined the 'kiss your customers ass' attitude yet.

[Numbers]

I was in the hospital for two weeks after liver surgery and they had me on a liquid diet. When they finally gave me something to eat, it came with chocolate mousse. Best damned chocolate mousse I've had in my life.

[Gelston]

I had chocolate mousse in the hosital, it was awesome. As was the cheese cake, and apple pie.

[Sean of the Thread]

Hmm the hospital I worked at had some really great food(really healthy choices also) in the cafeteria & for the patients there was a lady who had the 'fun' job of going room to room taking everyone's order personally.


Yeah they came to take personalized orders every day but the menu offered was different for different patients obviously.

I still didn't like the food but I guess I'm picky. That and I was in a bad mood I spose.

[Gan]

Hmm the hospital I worked at had some really great food(really healthy choices also) in the cafeteria & for the patients there was a lady who had the 'fun' job of going room to room taking everyone's order personally.

We were one of the top 100 heart hospitals in the US, it's mind blowing to me that a heart hospital would put in a McDonalds :sad:

The opposing hospital across town actually had food service 24/7 & you could order whatever you wanted for as many people/visitors as you wanted any time of the day or night.

Sounds like some hospitals haven't joined the 'kiss your customers ass' attitude yet.

St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital - Houston- one of the top 100 hospitals (overall and heart transplant/surgery) in the nation. Home of the Texas Heart Institute where Denton Cooley (retired) and Bud Frazier perform their heart transplants.

And it has a McDonalds. :banghead:

[TheRunt]

Food at my local hospital isn't the best. But I still love it(the hospital not the food) I think they have something like 30 beds? Food is pretty much standard cafeteria food. But the service for the most part is excellent. When my mom was in there a month and a half ago. We got to bring her dog in to see her. Which how many hospitals will allow a 110lb not very well trained mutt in? And offer two aditional rooms for free for the family to rest/shower/etc in? Hell we had at times 20-30 people up there visiting and sleeping there. And the pediatric nurses are the best. But they only have maybe 1-2 newborns at a time. If they have 3 its a major rush. The kids don't see the nursery unless there sick or for test. My daughter was in the room with us almost the entire time. Except for one night. The nurse came in and told my wife and I we weren't getting enough sleep. So she was taking our baby. She was in a crib at the nurses station the entire night.

[Beguiler]

Unfortunately, I've spent entirely too much time in hospitals. Let's face it, when you're really ill, nothing is good. If you're presented with a menu (and all the hospitals I've been in have daily choices a patient can pick based on their particular needs) half the time you look at it and say 'ugh' and just randomly check whatever looks edible. When you get the 'cardio kidney -diabetic' diet sheet, just pick by color. White blob, green blob, and baby-shit brown blob. All equally bland and tasteless. Yum.

However, the cafeteria at Barrow's Neurological Institute in Phoenix has an amazingly good cafeteria for visitors, and Good Samaritan (also in Phoenix) has the most awesom custard in the world for a patient snack.