Add to that the often frail, weakened or anxious condition of patients and visitors, and you get a situation where medical staff has to
play helper,
hall monitor, information provider and peacemaker all at once, instead of focusing on their primary job description.
Before «everyone» was online and able to
play multiplayer with someone halfway around the world, we had to either utilize rooms that were built as Local Area Networks or for the really dedicate you could take your whole computer (not laptop... desktop) to a
hall or someones house and connect to others to
play multiplayer... baring in mind this was also when most people were using giant, heavy CRT
monitors too).