It doesn't help that most hospitals essentially objectify patients these days.

When you are a patient, you are not a person, you are an object of medical care. There is an algorithm, a schedule; the arrival of new doctors and nurses at each shift change. They meet and talk with each other about how their objects are doing, and then they'll check in on you with a formal hello, 30 seconds of conversation, and then they'll leave.

If a patient has signs of mental illness, the providers draw straws to see who has the unlucky job of: "talk to the patient, but gently remind them that they are an object on a medical assembly line and probably nothing is going to happen until the next doctor comes around".

I don't know if hospitals have always been this way, or if we just romanticized them in the old movies. But unless you have a specific problem that medical intervention can solve (e.g., a medicine or a procedure), you are effectively a nobody, and there is nobody there that cares about you - at least for the definition of care that matters to most humans.