How good design could give us healthy hospitals

The Irish Times

Imagine a hospital ward. The television is flickering in the corner. Machines are beeping. Doctors are paged urgently over the loudspeaker. Their feet clatter on the hard floors, running to the next emergency. Your neighbour drones on to his daughter about the traffic. Did she take the new bypass, he enquires. You haven't slept properly since you were admitted. Visitors chatter away, oblivious to your glares.

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