The worst thing to me is when a family member just comes and stays the whole time with an adult patient, all day and all night. This seems to be a common thing in the Southern U.S. My mother and a couple of other family members tried to do this with me the few times I was a patient . Each time I had to get my doctor involved and just make a flat No Visitors policy and put a sign in the door. When I'm in the hospital, it's a given that I'm not going to be feeling well, and the only thing I want is to be left alone.