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Hospital Visit Hesitation

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Hospital Visit Hesitation	comment	A hospital is oftentimes considered a scary place to the average person. Among the many things to fear about it include blood, doctors, needles, machines, freelance germs, all sorts of medical cutlery, ill or injured people, death, and of course, those creepy gowns that don't close up in the back. Many of these concerns and more could be valid or otherwise reasons not to see a loved one when they're an inpatient: It brings back bad memories of their own hospitalization or another loved one's, especially if either had the same or similar disease/injury and the latter never made it out. It may make them face the patient's or their own mortality. It's directly or indirectly their fault the person is hospitalized. They last saw each other on bad terms and they may not get the ability to make proper amends. They may not know the person too well and may feel that visiting them would be awkward or inappropriate. They may fear catching something while visiting a building full of sick people. They may be literally physically unable to see them (they may be badly injured themselves, they don't have the transportation, esp. if they live or the patient were transferred out of state, they're barred from seeing them, etc.) The person may be selfish and/or unfeeling and doesn't truly care about the patient, or the patient themselves isn't liked enough to warrant visitors. Whatever the reason, they may not wish to see this person in the setting and may or may not be convinced of doing so as a plot point or by the episode's end. They could also try to see the person, even stepping into the room and trying to be with them, but could be overwhelmed by the whole situation and run off. What could make the scenario even worse is if the patient dies, leading to their loved one beating themselves up over not seeing them when they had the chance. Obviously, this occurs in a Sick Episode if the patient is particularly sick or injured to the point of being admitted, such as from cancer or from a car accident. Can be a dark variant of Daddy Didn't Show if the hospitalized person is a kid. Closely related to The Patient Has Left the Building. While it's mostly about visitors not wanting to see patients, the rarer inversion can occur as well, with the patient not wanting to see a particular visitor or any visitors at all, either due to some prior bad blood between them or not wishing to have anyone see them in such a vulnerable, incapacitated, or even embarrassing state. Examples
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_10401be7	comment	Batman: The Telltale Series: After the mayoral debate if you choose to rescue Selina, she will join you at the hospital to visit Harvey but will leave before seeing him. This is due to a combination over guilt at the wounds Harvey suffers if you choose to save her but also due to the character's habit of building walls and not showing vulerability.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_16aa3232	comment	Desperate Housewives: Gabby is resistant to making plans to visit Lynette in the hospital when Lynette has cancer. At first, Lynette attributes this to Gabby being selfish, as she often is. Gabby explains that when her father was dying of cancer, her mother forced her to put on a happy face when visiting him, and Gabby was resistant to repeating the experience. Lynette is actually relieved to hear this because everyone else's fake smiles were making her uncomfortable, so they agreed to Gabby visiting and not being fake with her.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_18acb3a5	comment	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: In "Home Is Where The Heart Attack Is", Carlton initially is terrified of seeing his father after his heart attack over being afraid of seeing him with tubes up his nose. He does soon see him, especially since he was asking for him.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_2477688c	comment	The Baby-Sitters Club: In "Claudia and Mean Janine," Claudia's beloved grandmother Mimi has a stroke. When Claudia first goes to see Mimi in the hospital, Mimi is still blank-faced and hooked up to all sorts of machines, and Claudia runs out crying. She does try again later and even finds a way to communicate with Mimi.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_2b8aaf62	comment	Human Resources (2022): When Sara's mother went to the hospital due to complications with cancer, Sara assured herself (with the help of her Logic Rock, Van) that she would get better and come home from the hospital within a week, likely because she didn't want to see her mother in that state. Her mother died in the hospital, and Sara feels so much guilt from not visiting her that she repressed all memories of her mother and refuses to talk about her.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_3dba4df9	comment	I Kill Giants: As part of the Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane plot, Barbara perceives a shadowy monster residing on the second floor of her house and refuses to go up there for most of the story. It eventually gets revealed that this "monster" is actually her terminally ill mother, who she's been too scared to visit. She fights the giants (symbolically or literally) because she thinks they are responsible for the illness, representing her inability to accept her mother's death. After confronting the Titan, she finally goes up to see her.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: When Dr. Cox's best friend (and ex-brother-in-law) gets leukemia, he is determined to stay positive. When Ben's test results come back and Cox realizes just how bad his odds of survival are, he gives up and decides to avoid Ben. He changes his mind eventually.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_5717177a	comment	In one edition of Chicken Soup for The Teenage Soul, the story "Role Reversal" had a college-aged woman visit her mother, who was in a devastating car accident. After being briefed by the doctor of her injuries and her grandmother requesting her not to cry in her presence, she tries to visit with her mother, but the state of her and valid realization that she could die soon overwhelms her, and she runs out the room to cry.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_5ad2b4e9	comment	Invoked in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker when Bruce Wayne visits Tim Drake in hospital after the Joker is defeated. It's treated as a big deal, as it represents his willingness to finally swallow his pride and reach out to his former sidekick note Tim had retired as Robin decades in the past, mostly due to the psychological wounds of being tortured into madness by the Joker and then killing the Clown Prince of Crime. Bruce being Bruce blamed himself for what happened, and cut off ties with Tim completely. Barbara Gordon, being the former Batgirl, is also present and both she and Drake immediately recognise the significance of Bruce's presence.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_6211e227	comment	Kedabory's Elmore Chronicles: In "The Disease", Boris Small refuses to come to the hospital and donate blood to his estranged younger sibling Sybil, citing their lack of contact and Sybil not attending his wedding or meeting his daughter Sophie as reasons why. Gumball and Darwin instead rope Sophie into coming with them, and while it turned out that they didn't actually need a blood donation, Sybil is nevertheless delighted to finally meet their niece.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_625e571	comment	Law & Order: Criminal Intent: In "Beast", the mother of a suspect explains that when she tried to visit her long-deceased, favorite daughter in the hospital who was sick with a then-unknown disease which left her with horrible lesions on her face (later revealed to be caused by dioxin poisoning), she was terrified of the state of her ravaged beauty and only visited her once.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_7b6c4921	comment	Degrassi: The Next Generation: After Jimmy returns to school in "Eye of the Tiger", it's discovered that his supposed best friend Spinner never once visited him in the hospital, citing a weak excuse of being busy. While he tries to make amends with him, he eventually confesses why he never visited; he and Jay lied to Rick about a paint and feathers prank they pulled on him, saying it was Jimmy who did it and which caused him to get shot and subsequently paralyzed. The confession makes Jimmy and the rest of the school to turn on them and both of them eventually get expelled. Discussed and played straight with Terri being hospitalized after a serious head injury caused by Rick. Whereas Ellie is sympathetic, she states that since the two girls didn't know each other well, it would be morbid of her to visit, Ashley actively avoided visiting her, and once she did, she was so freaked out by her injury that she stayed away.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_8c14d1c7	comment	Onward: In one scene, Barley talks about one of the few memories he has of his and Ian's father, Wilden, who died of a terminal illness. Barley mentions that as a kid, he tried to visit his dad in the hospital to say goodbye to him, but was too afraid to do so because of all the machines that Wilden was hooked up to. Unlike some of the other memories Barley has of his father, this is shown to be one that he's far more reluctant to talk about.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_98c961e2	comment	Helluva Boss: The ending of Western Energy sees the Stolas badly hurt and hospitalised following an abduction. In the aftermath, Stolas has a brief text conversation with Blitzo, inviting Blitzo to visit him in the hospital where he is expected to stay for some time. Still not past their mutual awkwardness following the disaster at Ozzie's and shocked that the Nigh-Invulnerable Stolas can get hurt, Blitzo begins to type a response but soon gives up, leaving Stolas on read.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_9ce851a3	comment	Malcolm in the Middle: Malcolm spends an entire episode finding excuses not to go visit his friend Stevie at the hospital. He finally visits him in the last scene and acts like a jerk, but Stevie is still glad that at least he did come.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_b3b15bc1	comment	X-Men: The Animated Series: At the start of The Phoenix Saga, after Jean is taken to the hospital, Beast suggests he and Wolverine can visit her there. Wolverine says he doesn't care for hospitals, as the last time he was on an operating table, it didn't turn out so well and pops his claws for emphasis.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_c0bbee2c	comment	In The Moon of Gomrath, set in rural England, the older countrywoman Bess Mossock displays a fear of doctors and hospitals. Part of this might be rural superstition - she would believe a hospital is a place where the terminally ill go to die - but part might be down to the time and place. In England in The '50s, Bess would belong to the generation that came before the NHS, where Britain had an almost American approach to healthcare - it had to be paid for and it didn't come cheap. People would defer medical attention for as long as possible, deterred and frightened by the cost. note Truth in Television. When a British woman on holiday in New York lost her leg from the hip down in an horrific accident, the response in Britain noted she'd lost a leg - but focused on "poor cow, this happened in AMERICA. The Yanks are really going to rip her off with a massive bill". Six or seven figures? People were more horrified by the cost of American medicine, not by the injury.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire: After Kima is shot by two Barksdale hitmen, Jimmy McNulty refuses to see her in the hospital since he blames himself for the unfortunate turn of events. While it's true that Jimmy kickstarted the Barksdale investigation to stick it to his bosses, Barksdale is nonetheless a legitimate threat and the other members of the detail feel it was worth sticking their necks out to get him and his gang off the streets. When Jimmy finally visits Kima, she calls him a bitch and says her only regret was not using enough tape to secure the gun that she stashed.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_d3bc03fe	comment	Discussed in an early One Tree Hill episode. After Lucas is left in a coma after a car accident, best friend Haley didn't want to see him since their last conversation was a fight, and she stated that "If I go in there, I'll start crying, and I know that I won't be able to stop."
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_d4efb984	comment	The Golden Girls: In "Great Expectations," Blanche refuses to see her latest beau after his heart attack, to his and the other girls' chagrin. She does eventually see him, only to learn that he had rekindled his relationship with his former wife, who was there for him in his time of need. In another episode, Dorothy is scheduled for surgery for a Morton's neuroma, a kind of benign nerve tumor that has been causing her intermittent foot pain and interfering with her daily activities (including an upcoming dance recital). She reveals herself to have a phobia of hospitals that started when she was five—she'd had an emergency tonsillectomy and circumstances kept both of her parents from being there, and she never got over the childhood fear. Her doctor's casual discussion of all that could go wrong doesn't help, either. A conversation with her hospital roommate, who's in for her second mastectomy and is facing it stoically despite her very real fear, snaps her out of it. (And, to top it off, this time Sophia makes sure to stay by her daughter's side until she wakes up from the anaesthetic.)
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: In "Kenny Dies", Kenny is dying from a muscular disease and Stan is reluctant to head into the hospital to see him, fearful of the state he'll be in. Thanks to Chef, he eventually gets the courage to go in... only to find that he was too late and Kenny had already passed on. To twist the knife further, Kenny's final words were asking where Stan was.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_ec25a849	comment	Subverted in Doug episode "Doug's Shock Therapy". When disliked vice principal Mr. Bone is hospitalized for unknown reasons, Doug unintentionally gets roped into taking a get well card tree to him, and while he states that hospitals give him the willies and he doesn't want to visit Mr. Bone, especially since he had no idea what he had, note understandable, as it may be contagious or just too much for a kid to handle; turns out, he was only getting a wart removed from his finger he goes to drop off the cards anyway.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_f87c42c	comment	Saved by the Bell: The New Class: One episode has Rachel terrified to see her boyfriend Ryan, who was getting his appendix out, due to being young and sick with tonsillitis as a child and losing her own beloved grandmother years earlier. When she tries to go into his hospital room to see him, they make eye contact (and he was happy to see her), and she initially runs away scared, but she soon gets the courage to be with him before the surgery.
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Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_ffb43795	comment	Cobra Kai: Tory refuses to visit her boyfriend Miguel in the hospital during Season 3, out of a combination of guilt for causing the brawl at the school that put him there in the first place and lingering resentment towards him for cheating on her with his ex-girlfriend Sam.
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