Over the years man has always put their sick people together, this was mostly for convenience. But one thing that history will tell us is that this might not be the best way for healing people.
Above is a picture of a Civil War hospital.
"However, while “advanced” or “hygienic” may not be terms attributed to medicine in the nineteenth century, modern hospital practices and treatment methods owe much to the legacy of Civil War medicine. Of the approximately 620,000 soldiers who died in the war, two-thirds of these deaths were not the result of enemy fire, but of a force stronger than any army of men: disease. Combating disease as well treating the legions of wounded soldiers pushed Americans to rethink their theories on health and develop efficient practices to care for the sick and wounded." https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/civil-war-medicine?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5c31htKb2QIVAjJpCh0tWwW9EAAYAiAAEgK-OvD_BwE
You can see that Diseases have taken countless lives from war, especially when we group them together. When you think about it, you put all the sick people together, and instead of curing them, they get everything that they didn't have. Even today, with all the medical advances, Staff infections are still running rampant in hospitals. Just last week, we went on a tour of the hospital, and they were turning people away with any cold or flu like symptoms unless you would wear masks at the door. Lately every time I go, I get sick, and all my friends who are nurses seem to be a revolving door of disease.
So what to do? I don't have any of the answers.......yet! But you can see, that when grouping people with illness together, you can have dangerous side effects. My real concern is not staff infection, but metal illness that has been so prevalent in today's society. We are doing the same thing with this as we have done with all illness, and grouping them together. I am concerned that instead of healing, we are furthering the mental illness epidemic by surrounding people in need of care, with people in need of care. Sometimes things like this will feed on each other. Any thoughts, I personally saw some of this in my grandmother at her care home.
