Friday miscellanea, recent hospital visit edition

  • Waiting rooms suck, wherever they are.  Hospital waiting rooms suck the worst.
  • Lea had several marvelous technicians and nurses (ooh, and the last one looked like Jennifer Connelly).  Conversely, the first-thing-in-the-morning cafeteria guy was about as engaged with the outside world as your average plastic fern.  Better that than vice versa, for sure.
  • In-room Wi-Fi.  Excellent.
  • Some of the things that are cool about a hotel room are also cool about a hospital room—literally.  I love mentally uncoupling the thermostat setting from my wallet.  Screw the environment.
  • Speaking of indulgences, it surprises me a bit that the “hospital as destination” concept isn’t better fleshed out.  There are luxury hospitals, with robes, expensive sheets, high-quality furniture, gourmet meals, and what-not.  But why stop there?  Why has no one thought to attach high-quality shopping and dining for visitors?  Hell, just take a Vegas casino floor plan and swap a hospital in for the gaming floor.  Look at the numerous ridiculously hedonistic outlets there are for an ultra-rich person’s dollar, and then tell me it’s silly.
  • Barring the existence of the afore-described Mirage Cardiac Center, and the presence of Jennifer Connelly-looking nurses notwithstanding, I think hospitals must be the least sexy places on earth.  OK, funeral parlors beat them out.
  • Doubtless some discharged patients should be wheelchaired to the car, but everyone? This is avoidance of the $5 million twisted ankle, I’m sure.  How long before they make everyone wheelchair to and from the bathroom in their rooms?
  • It certainly is a relief to be able to make light of some aspects of Lea’s visit instead of dreading the next one.

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2 thoughts on “Friday miscellanea, recent hospital visit edition”

  1. I wonder about people like that. People who are either just stupid or just disengaged are pretty easy to spot, but occasionally you run into one for which the determination is quite difficult.

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