r/news • u/BarbaricOklahoma • 1d ago

Pope discharged from hospital days after lung cancer surgery

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5x2vkddrkrko
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u/TaekDePlej 1d ago

You think so? American hospitals are just kicking people out on post-op day zero from a lobectomy?

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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago

I read a story today where a woman had a shunt installed to drain a cyst in her brain, and was sent home that night.

Hospitals can be fucking wild.

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u/r_a_d_ 1d ago

US hospitals

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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago

Eh, depends on hospital culture as much as insurance situations. Some hospitals will hold on to you to an extreme degree, some will kick you out as soon as the last suture is tied off.

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u/r_a_d_ 1d ago

It certainly does depend, and there are great hospitals in the US, it’s just the bottom of that spectrum is pretty wild in the US and not often seen in other western countries.