Yea, when I had my hip replaced I was in a very nice private room. It was the size of a nice motel room. The hospital was new and there were only 5 patients on the entire floor. There was one nurse per patient even at night. It was real quiet except for the nurses coming in every 15 minutes to poke, prod or waking me up to give me a sleeping pill. They would come in at 3:30 AM and wake me up just to weigh me. WTF, I am there all day, and they have to know my weight at 3:30 AM?
Back in the 1960s my brother spent 6 months in the hospital with an infection in his spine. It was at Trippler Army Hospital in Hawaii. He was in a large ward. I bet there were 20 guys in the room. The only privacy was a curtain the nurses could pull shut around the bed. He would get to feeling sorry for himself and then see the soldiers coming in from Vietnam. Some of them were in rough shape.
When the aircraft carrier the Enterprise had the big fire in 1969 they were bring in burned and injured sailors in by the dozens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_fire
He saw stuff that made him not feel too sorry for himself.