This article was originally published on Diynhacks.com

Some of us spend our lives coming and going in and out of hospitals, while others make it through with barely a visit or two. Yet, for all of us, the hospital is an important institution that we want to know is there when we need it and functioning the way it should be. But do we really know how a hospital is supposed to work? Every day, our hospitals are witness to hundreds of occurrences of which the public remains completely unaware. We’ve heard from a bunch of medical professionals, and today, we expose some of those secrets only known to people who’ve spent time behind the scenes.

#1: Treat Nurses With Respect

It’s no secret that nurses are one of the most underpaid and undervalued populations in the workforce. People are only ever interested in doctors despite the fact that nurses are responsible for a great deal of the care and the treatment that we receive while in the hospital bed.

It’s, therefore, equally unsurprising that nurses receive a lot of abuse. People in hospitals are often stressed, scared, and angry, and I guess nurses are just the most readily available punching bag. Yet it is really appalling that when such abuse gets reported, no action is taken against the perpetrators. Shame!