Posted: Jul 09, 2011 11:07 am
Slightly off topic here but I've been spending a lot of time in hospitals in the UK recently as a patient and possibly will make use of the local hospice too. Nothing to report so far. Apart from a healthy, friendly business like approach to my concerns. All comments and advice have been completely secular in nature. Not a whiff of God or sickly, patronising smile in in sight or smelling range in fact.
However,
One of the "dangers" I foresee if I go down the hospice route is the possibility of being "preached at" by the vendors of alternative therapy. My problem there is I have a loathing of pseudo science. Almost equal to my dislike of religion. I have a feeling however that if I do need the hospice the real staff will keep them away from me if I quietly ask.
Anyway,
The idea that I would be involuntarily preached at or even religiously grinned at in a work place let alone being in the vulnerable position of being a patient gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I hope everything works out. This is way out of order. It's wrong it's abuse full stop, end of.
However,
One of the "dangers" I foresee if I go down the hospice route is the possibility of being "preached at" by the vendors of alternative therapy. My problem there is I have a loathing of pseudo science. Almost equal to my dislike of religion. I have a feeling however that if I do need the hospice the real staff will keep them away from me if I quietly ask.
Anyway,
The idea that I would be involuntarily preached at or even religiously grinned at in a work place let alone being in the vulnerable position of being a patient gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I hope everything works out. This is way out of order. It's wrong it's abuse full stop, end of.