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Originally Posted by DGTess
Mind you, I'm all for all the visitors the patient wants. Last time I was hospitalized, I told the staff "NO visitors but my spouse and son" and told them no more than 1/2 hour each day -- but that's me. When I'm sick I don't want to see anyone.
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And from reading the memo, I think this is really the point -- who the patient wants (or doesn't want) to come in should trump a hospital's "family only" rule. As I read, it does no more than say that if a patient wants a companion to whom he or she is not legally married or in a civil union with to come be able to visit, the hospital can't say "No, family only."
I can see some concern about the federal goverment being involved to begin with, but I can see the other side, too.
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Originally Posted by AGDee
All Presidents make executive orders. ALL. GW made 291 of them. Chill people.
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This. (Only I don't think this even rises to the level of an executive order).