Something Interesting
by Randi
In the photos I put up the other day I noticed something interesting - there was a clear shot of the directory for Princeton Plainsboro Hospital!
I happen to have a hard time imagining spacial things - it shocked me to realize that House and Wilson’s offices were on the fourth floor and the MRI was way down on the bottom floor. I knew the clinic was on the first floor but didn’t know that the patient rooms were on the third floor.
Am I just that oblivious? Probably.
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November 13th, 2008 at 4:52 am
I think it is funny that legal services are on the same floor as House’s department.
Also I was under the impression that there is an ICU department on the fourth floor too if not there are definatly patients rooms because you see House etc walk past them when they go out or in via the long way round.
November 13th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Makes little to no sense…the chapel sits on that balcony area above the first floor or at least it does in a lot of the shows. House comes out of his office and hits the button to go UP to the rehab center (which isn’t even on the list) and where’s emergency? Surgery? PROP GUYs are not on the ball.
But who’s counting? LOL
November 16th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Hmm…if I had creative freedom to assign locations, I’d put all the diagnostic imaging in the basement because of the very heavy equipment and the need for shielding. Thus, ultrasound would be in the basement as well as mammography.
The main floor would house the pharmacy, chapel, gift shop, laboratory, cafeteria, admissions, and the business office. Sometimes people just need to pop in for a test or a refill and shouldn’t have to increase the crowding on other floors. Urgent and Emergent Care should be located wherever the ground level entrance can be situated to give easy access to emergency vehicles, and far away from the main hospital entrance.
Administration and specialties like oncology, urology, pulmonology, cardiology, ophthalmology, and rheumatology can be on their own floor, with a physically separate wing for intensive care, surgery and recovery. Clinical classrooms and meeting rooms can be close to the specialty suites because PPH is a teaching hospital.
I’d also create a children’s floor with birthing rooms, bedroom-like mother/child rooms, and a protected yet open nursery. A neonatal intensive care unit would be located on that floor also, but physically separate from the birthing center. For the sake of the TV series, I suppose some of the other essential services don’t have to be acknowledged in the building directory–e.g., rehab medicine, pulmonology, orthopedics, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, hematology, social work, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, physical therapy, etc.
Given the crew and cast’s dedication to good scientific medicine and the accurate and precise use of medical vocabulary, I’d hope a bit more attention could be paid to the sets as well, given the beautiful and modern architectural design we see in each episode. I’m a fan, so the details become important as we get to know the people better and better. (An all-Mac environment would be perfect, instead of the mix of Apple and “other” platforms which could have some difficulty being hooked up together.)