[phonebanshee]

I don't have a lot of experience with hospitals, but what I do have (via relative with life-threatening heart issues, including most recently a pacemaker) says that "I was feeling 80% well when I went in, I was only there because the doctors wanted to be thorough and check my vitals overnight" isn't normal. It seemed more like "hmm, you're not dying, go home" was the general rule. And not unreasonable, either; unless you need to be in a hospital, you probably shouldn't be. Never felt like we were getting pushed out, but they definitely encouraged us to go home. Excellent insurance, so that wasn't the issue, and there were several multi-day stays, including post-surgery. Pre-covid (but within the last three years), so space wasn't an issue either. [And the person's doing great now. +1 modern medicine.]

[amanaplanacanal]

Yes. If you don’t absolutely need to be in a hospital, you don’t want to be there. People pick up all sorts of unfortunate infections in hospitals.