Docs Yell All The Time?

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I'm just home from a week in hospital. Why do docs (and all other medicos) yell all the time? OK, I'm hypersensitive to sound. But when I say "Please lower your voice" they say (without missing a beat) - "This is my normal tone. This is how I speak." Word for word. Every last one of them. They all introduce themselves at the top of their lungs and say the exact same thing, word for word, when I ask them to speak lower.

This is a huge teaching hospital. Medically, one of the best in North America. Obviously hard on my nerves. I ran away, tubes and all. I'm serious. Also I'm okay.

I'm asking you this: WHY??? Nobody has that tone of voice. Why do medics bellow all day and terrify me, even after I've told them?

I live in a town that used to have alot of cotton mills and most of the population were employed in these noisy mills. I asked one of my coleagues "why does everyone in this town shout at each other?" and he said, it's because they all used to work in noisy places and it's just their normal tone of voice.

Maybe doctors are used to noisy hospitals and are used to raising their voice to be heard without needing to repeat themselves. It is their normal tone of voice, but it's not normal to us.

I don't know what to do about it. Hospitals are noisy. Last time I spent time in hospital I hardly got any sleep.

I can honestly say that has never happened to me. Every GP I have had speaks in a generally quiet volume for me. In the hospital, they might raise their voice a bit, but only if it is quite nosy anyway. Nurses tend to be louder, I've noticed. I figure it is so the patient is fully informed and aware of whatever procedure they are doing (especially for an elderly patient).

The only other time I can remember the doctor raising their voice was when I was coming out of unconsciousness, but at the time I didn't know she was a doctor and couldn't make out anything she was saying.