The box look of hospital halls
Posted By: Lawrence Emke 
Date Posted: May 29th, 2010 Category: Cost & Quality
I was watching a TV commercial promoting hospitals
concern for patients. The scene was
a series of long, dimly lit empty halls
that ended in a nurse and mother holding
a new born child.
I guess the producer was trying to give
the impression of giving “birth”.
The series of halls reminded of the way
all hospitals use to look. It gave
me the wrong impression. I thought
all of those places had been eliminated.
I guess I was wrong.
To make medicine better, eliminate all
of those halls the remind you of a box
(coffin). Even passages to an operating
room should be full of hope. My parents
and grand parents held the view that you
only went to the hospital when you were
in danger of dying. The square box view
of a hospital environment only reinforces
that idea.