Other people's noise

I had a similar experience to you in the hospital Emergency Department recently. A man several seats up from me was watching and listening to a video on his phone and it really affected me so I put my ear plugs in. The TV was also on so it was very unpleasant. I ended up standing in the corridor to get away from him. 

I don’t know what to do in these circumstances.  Hospitals should have signs telling people not to have audio playing or to use earphones. Years ago people would ask someone playing a video or music to turn it off or wear earphones. Nowadays that might cause a fight. 

I can't see busy hospitals having the time or space to have a quiet space and people would abuse that like they used to on quiet carriages on trains where mobile phones were forbidden, they'd come in and take thier calls as it was quieter.

I would probably either end up in a confrontation or leaving without treatment, I'd be less likely to have a meltdown with a confrontation, or it would be a different sort of meltdown. Or I'd end up doing both, as happened when I was at the dentists a couple of years ago, really frightened and on high alert and this bloke started having a go at me for being visably scared as he didn't want his son to be scared of dentists. I never went back to that practice and if the bloke had come after me I probably would of hit him, it would of been an automatic PTSD related response to being under threat.

 Your experience at the dentist was horrendous and that man sounds like he was a bully.

TheCatWoman said:

I can't see busy hospitals having the time or space to have a quiet space and people would abuse that like they used to on quiet carriages on trains where mobile phones were forbidden, they'd come in and take thier calls as it was quieter

Yes, I think it would be at the bottom of a very long list.

There wouldn’t be a suitable area for a quiet space at the hospital I was at. It was at the minor injuries area of the emergency department and it was like going downstairs into a dungeon with people crammed together. Upstairs in the majors area trolleys were lining the corridor. The last statistics I saw on UK hospitals showed it had the worst waiting times of over 24 hours, and the news reported that an older person died in the corridor while people walked by, so there was no dignity. Given that, there is no way the hospital would allocate further funds for a pager system or staff to fetch people who can’t manage with noisy and crowded waiting areas. 

 Your experience at the dentist was horrendous and that man sounds like he was a bully.

TheCatWoman said:

I can't see busy hospitals having the time or space to have a quiet space and people would abuse that like they used to on quiet carriages on trains where mobile phones were forbidden, they'd come in and take thier calls as it was quieter

Yes, I think it would be at the bottom of a very long list.

There wouldn’t be a suitable area for a quiet space at the hospital I was at. It was at the minor injuries area of the emergency department and it was like going downstairs into a dungeon with people crammed together. Upstairs in the majors area trolleys were lining the corridor. The last statistics I saw on UK hospitals showed it had the worst waiting times of over 24 hours, and the news reported that an older person died in the corridor while people walked by, so there was no dignity. Given that, there is no way the hospital would allocate further funds for a pager system or staff to fetch people who can’t manage with noisy and crowded waiting areas.