Anami and I visited the doctor today for routine physicals and establishing new relationships. We went down to the hospital at Stanford. Everything was clean, to be sure (there were antibiotic pumps by the doors), but not sterile, if that makes sense. There was lots of space and light and natural-looking stone and plants. Everyone was friendly and briskly efficient at the same time. There was a lot of paperwork to start with, but after you're logged into their system, everything is online. Anami got her lab work back already, for example. Something got messed up with my registration for the service, though, and HIPAA makes things complicated; I'll have to wait for a PIN thingy in the snail mail.
I've a long and rambling sort of rant in the back of my head about how hospitals should be. My influences are various interactions with hospitals as a spectator while someone else suffered, and witnessing the way that the Establishment often exacerbated that suffering. I was surprised to see how much closer to my ideas Stanford Hospital came than any other hospital I've visited.
I wouldn't mind if parking were cheaper, though.
hopeful
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