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packman

(16,296 posts)
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 12:24 PM Oct 2017

Need to go to the hospital? Go to Japan for care and the FOOD

A woman who recently gave birth in Japan, however, has just shared 12 of the meals she was served during her stay in the maternity ward, and they look tastier than half of the restaurants we’ve ever visited. Food presentation is crucial in the Land of the Rising Sun, and it would appear that even hospitals take this cultural tradition seriously.

Since the woman’s post went viral, users from all over the globe – especially the US – now want to give birth in Japan, including men. We’re not sure if these gourmet spreads are offered to people in the hospital for other reasons, but if you’re in Tokyo and feel like getting a ‘surprise’ injury to find out, let us know how it goes.






Other wonderful pix meals and descriptions of food at:

https://www.boredpanda.com/hospital-food-japan-birth/

I can remember the first solid meal I got after some surgery in a Florida Hospital - It almost killed me with fried chicken, greasy potatoes and coffee that jumped out of the cup and punched me in the gut. Broke some stitches throwing up.

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Need to go to the hospital? Go to Japan for care and the FOOD (Original Post) packman Oct 2017 OP
How much would that cost in a restaurant here in America? DK504 Oct 2017 #1
$7-$9 snooper2 Oct 2017 #2
I sympathize, packman, postop hospital food is cruel and inhumane torture. procon Oct 2017 #3
Many hospitals do present patients with a menu. MineralMan Oct 2017 #4

procon

(15,805 posts)
3. I sympathize, packman, postop hospital food is cruel and inhumane torture.
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 01:11 PM
Oct 2017

There you are, weak, bandaged, dorked out on pain meds, hooked up to tubes, and your tummy is threatening to leave, when in comes a happy person to deliver the food. Bless you child... um, what is that dark greyish-green mass... oh, spinach? You don't say. And hidden under the white blob with brown sauce, is that chicken... BBQ chicken with mashed potatoes and country gravy. Yes... well, could I just have a cup of broth or bullion with a couple of plain crackers?

With all the digital communications devices available today, why don't hospital patients have the option to order their own food from a hospital menu. Certainly there would be diet restrictions, but there still should be some menu choices available to patients. Maybe the post op patients just want small amounts of some nutritious, but still light, quick and easy to eat. Patients might want bland or spicy foods, several dishes, or just a bowl of good soup. There would probably be a lot less food waste, and less stress on patients, if they had some control over their menus.

I like the look of the Japanese food, it just shouts fresh and healthy, and it sure looks like a lot of food to eat. It looks delicious, but I couldn't have eaten it for several days after my surgery. I was barely managing jello, soup, juice and tea, not just the lack of appetite and aversion to most foods, but I was so weak it was just too hard to make the effort.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
4. Many hospitals do present patients with a menu.
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 02:35 PM
Oct 2017

You can check off the things you want. When my wife had hip replacement surgery, she got a menu like that. Not too hungry, she ordered a few light things she thought she could handle on the day of the surgery. The next day, before she came home, she ordered a BLT, a salad, and two hard boiled eggs for the lunch she had before we left.

Total hip replacement one morning and a ride home in the car the next day after lunch. Pretty amazing, really. In the US, women who give birth normally are only in the hospital one night. Then it's home again.

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