Dear Grandpa, your tale is true!

What I can remember about my Grandpa was what he had always said about senior citizens and hospitals. He said that old people would expire when they were hospitalised.

Initially I thought it was just bullshit as there is no scientific evidence and no studies being done to support such generalisation. After all, my Grandpa did not even attend Primary School. Thus who is he to make such prediction?

However, after spending fifty-two years on earth, finally I comprehend what most people do not realise about any hospital.

What my Grandpa had said about hospital being a death place is true!

What is so difficult to grasp this common sense deduction?

First, the hospital is a very dirty place! Hello, you cannot see the millions of germs and bacteria plus virus that are floating in the hospitals! SARS had proven that such germs etc can survive for more than a day. As humans evolved, so do germs.

Second, the nurses’ and doctors’ uniform transmit one patient’s germs to another.

Third, when a person is sick, one is weakened, therefore with the millions of germs surrounding them, they will become worse.

Fourth, a senior citizen is a much weaker person plus one’s sickness will make them a very easy target for death.

Fifth, new house man (i.e. inexperienced doctor) will make fatal mistakes contributing to earlier expiration of the senior citizen.

Sixth, greenhorn nurses will also commit blunders that will speed up the complication of multi-problems.

Seventh, the recycled air due to air-conditioner will carry more germs and bacteria plus virus than anyone could imagine.

Eighth, lack of monitoring (due to staff shortage) and slow detection of the patient’s condition will aggravate and hasten senior citizens’ death.

Finally, when good intentioned family members, relatives, friends, etc, visit the aged patient, wouldn’t their germs be spread to the victim especially if they are about to fall sick themselves?

Thus, do you need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that for senior citizens going to the hospital will mean waiting for death?

Some grandma had even said that going to hospitals will be unlucky. Why?

They may have observed that some people after visiting hospitals will become sick. Again it is commonsense that when one is not feeling well, a visit to the hospital will make one even worse as one’s resistance and immunity system is much lower.

The elders observed and passed on their observations, it is up to us to analyse their findings. I wish I had listen more to my Grandpa before he expired. Now I regret losing much of his wisdom that he had gained through observation and experience.

I hope some establishment can organise the collection of grandparents’ tales and try to prove whether they are constructive or not. Otherwise our forefathers’ wisdom and experience will be lost for ever. Is not that a great loss to society?