# Why do they rush you home so quick after surgery **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 10, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508 "2016-05-10T22:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508/41 "2016-05-14T02:35:35Z")
For my wife’s outpatient procedures we have always had to stay _inordinately long_. They won’t let her go until she pees and her bladder just takes a while to recover from anesthesia. Have never felt rushed once; I’ve been in the bigger hurry to get her out of there already. Why anyone would want to stay in a hospital even one minute more than they absolutely have to is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508/42 "2016-05-14T02:47:21Z")
I had a lumpectomy last year and I was supposed to go home the same day, but I got so sick from the anesthesia that they keep me overnight. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508/43 "2016-05-14T11:18:29Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > Well, please Bijou Drains let me know when you are going to be in hospital so we can dress all sexy for you, maybe put on some makeup and fix our hair. Push up bra and heels; will that make your overnight stay better? > > Did you know that in most places now in the USA and Canada the entry to practice for Regustered nurses is a Bachelors Degree? E Double Win! Inteligent as well as good looking! In Aus our nurses don’t normally dress up like that, and would probably get a bit narky at you, and the patients are mostly too sick to care, but it would certainly cheer up the odd visitor. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508/44 "2016-05-14T13:23:30Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Double Win! Inteligent as well as good looking! In Aus our nurses don’t normally dress up like that, and would probably get a bit narky at you, and the patients are mostly too sick to care, but it would certainly cheer up the odd visitor. And those visitors can indeed be odd. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508/45 "2016-05-14T22:32:38Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > When I had a colonoscopy a few years back, they gave me a sedative and then wouldn’t let me go for an hour although I felt fine. This was in Montreal where the hospitals are all non-profit and the medicare is provincial. They do that here also, and you absolutely positively have to have someone to drive you home. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508/46 "2016-05-14T22:34:14Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > What, no random stranger on the internet doing the procedure? Greetings. I am a Nigerian surgeon-prince, and you will be amazed to know there is a check for $10 million (US) wrapped around your appendix. Click here so that I can operate and split the money with you. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508/47 "2016-05-14T23:39:48Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Greetings. I am a Nigerian surgeon-prince, and you will be amazed to know there is a check for $10 million (US) wrapped around your appendix. Click here so that I can operate and split the money with you. I have a list of possibilities. What do you need, a sushi knife, alcohol, needle and thread? ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508/48 "2016-05-15T00:40:38Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Double Win! Inteligent as well as good looking! In Aus our nurses don’t normally dress up like that, and would probably get a bit narky at you, and the patients are mostly too sick to care, but it would certainly cheer up the odd visitor. I am sorry I don’t know if you are agreeing with me or not. We wear scrubs and running shoes and have no patience with patients who expect us to play out some antiquated nurse fantasy. I’m calling out Bijou Drains on the sexism implied in his comment. I haven’t seen his reply yet. ---
**Author:** ![Toledo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@Toledo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toledo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508/49 "2016-05-15T03:15:53Z")
Interestlingly, my wife had surgery for detached retina back in 1982. She was in the hospital for a week, three nights with her head between sandbags so she couldn’t move her head into an eyes-down position. I had full vitrectomies in 2006 and 2009, where the eye is drained and the surgeon laser tack-welds the retina in place. It was outpatient, I was home before noon that day. Things progress in a quarter century. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-rush-you-home-so-quick-after-surgery/754508.md?page=2)