I also had a bad experience with the nurses when my mom passed away.

My sister and I were on the elevator discussing mom, when this nurse who was riding up with us from the cafeteria asked out of the blue if the doctor had told us she would be going to hospice. Keep in mind that the doctor had not given her or us her final diagnosis at this time. When we told the nurse this, she rolled her eyes up in her head and said she didn't understand why.

I don't know why some people become so de-emotionalized, but they don't always know what they are talking about. This same hospital, during the same time had a nurse tell my husband that he had the worst case of pneumonia she had ever seen and he would be a patient for at least a week. Needless to say, she couldn't read the x-ray and mistakenly thought his lack of an upper lung was pneumonia! He had had it removed 6 weeks earlier for possible mets.

Mandi