Nastiest thing I ever saw, or smelled, in a hospital. When I think back to my first job in 1993 as a nurse, the OB rooms still had carpet on the floors. Imagine that — carpet in a hospital. When they finally tore it up, the smell was one of the nastiest things I’d ever encountered. But once it was gone, the whole hospital smelled better. The smells weren't the only proble. Medicaid patients were forced to share rooms, even when plenty of other beds sat empty. Patients with insurance got private