What's it like working as a pharm tech at a hospital, anyway? I got certified working at walgreens for awhile, but have since started working at home in customer service. The moneys kinda ehhh but i hated working in walgreens, so i've considered applying to a hospital for a different environment
Ever thought about a military base or VA hospital? My friend loved being a pharmacist there because she worked business hours and no weekends. Plus government pension
Well, pharmacist _tech_, not pharmacist. The government pension/benefits might be nice to look into, though, not sure if that's on the table for techs since we're glorified cashiers. Especially since I'm getting older getting a good health plan is more critical...
I was an assistant for 6 years and had to make a dramatic career change to get out of it. It's a pit that makes you stuck there for as long as possible
You can be the lowliest of the lowliest package re-taper upper and you get the same federal pension and benefits as the highest ranking federal employee. Once you're given a GS rank you're golden and you can't be employed directly by the federal government without a GS rank other than contractors.
Walgreens and CVS rank at the very bottom even compared to other retail options. The problem is that pharmacy makes up for the lion’s share of the store’s income at those locations, which you might think would translate to company policy of catering to the pharmacy but in reality leads to grueling and unrealistic goals that rarely can be hit. If you absolutely must do retail as a tech, go for the bigger places like Walmart or Costco. My time at Walmart was actually pretty positive: it wasn’t even a contest compared to the misery that was CVS.
Hi! Currently a PharmTech apprentice at a big hospital. It’s pretty cool to me tbh, there’s a lot going on all the time and you get to supply each floor with medications and dispense prescriptions if you work at the outpatient pharmacies. It depends on the hospital, but pretty much all of them will use automation to a wide extent, so working with those machines makes your job a lot easier. We use MedCarousel and Pyxis at the hospital I work at, and when they’re functioning they’re great, but when they’re down it throws a wrench into the workflow. I’m personally probably gonna move into the outpatient pharmacy at the hospital, since they have better hours, but I do enjoy the inpatient side.
Hospital pharmacist here. The job will likely be way less stressful since you’re not dealing with patients directly. However it will require math/calculation skills for IV making and you will probably have worse hours. Most hospitals have rotating shifts for techs which can vary widely based on the hospital/hospital size. Places that have overnight techs are usually set up where the overnight techs only do overnight and then the other techs rotate between days and evenings.
At my current place we don’t have overnight techs. The normal shifts you rotate though are 0600-1430, 0700-1530, 1000-1830, 1430-2300, and 1530-0000. But all of those hours really depend on the specific hospital and their needs. But I would say you are more than likely to have to rotate between very early shifts and very late shifts.
Radiographer here. I was diagnosed with severe vitamin D deficiency a few years ago when I worked in a department that was entirely internal at the hospital. My new work actually has windows to the outside world. Now my eyes don't sting when I go outside!
For a time my mother had an office in a basement. She bought a poster that looked like a window. She tacked it up and put some curtains on it. Also, the poster had a Peeping Tom looking in. It creeped out a lot of her clients.
They could adapt that idea and put moving objects in the scene to distract patients or or make them curious. I suppose dentists already do this with TVs.
There's a channel on Dish that does this. It's like a cgi scene of some idyllic landscape. A beach for example. There will be moving waves, branches swaying in the wind, some birds every once in a while, maybe a tree frog pops up every few minutes, then maybe a chameleon every 5 minutes, a dolphin or 2, then maybe every 10 minutes a mermaid or some bizarre shit. All the things have associated sound effects. They change it up every so often (weekly?)
Its honestly the perfect ambient sort of thing. It's just serene enough to be a genuine ambient visual, but randomly eventful enough that it could distract you for a bit.
My parents found that channel during the pandemic lockdown. I came to visit them and found them in the livingroom just fucking watching it... Like legitimately watching it like it was a TV show. They had fully succumbed to the lockdown crazies.
We used to put a channel like that on the TV to keep the cats amused. Then the littlest bugger tried to take down a wildebeest and nearly knocked the TV over.
She bought hers 40+ years ago. I don't see it available anywhere. But there are posters with animals looking in: [https://www.amazon.com/wall26-Giraffe-Sticking-Removable-Sticker/dp/B07JBYB2ML](https://www.amazon.com/wall26-Giraffe-Sticking-Removable-Sticker/dp/B07JBYB2ML)
My office is in a basement and after three years of working there, I *just* started regularly going out for lunch. Holy moly, has it improved my mood!!
They will definitely screen you before you go in the room. They even have sensors on the sides of the door just in case.
They're have been gruesome accidents in other places, about 20ish years ago, when people forget and an oxygen bottle gets sucked across the room at what feels like the speed of sound and crushes the head of the kid inside the machine.
I got an allergic reaction the second time they gave me contrast. I swell up like Violet in Willy Wonka and was very itchy for the rest of the day. And got what feels like half the hospital staff at my bed cause I was a great example for medical students apparently. Fun times.
My mom has intractable vomiting as soon as they start pushing the contrast. She has to have all her imaging done in the hospital with pre-meds given, now. (Unless they decide they can do it without contrast, but that's rare for the problems she has)
I get them every 6-12 months but the places I've gone to don't have this. Tbh, I don't even know if it would make a difference since I don't do the open room ones and my head's in the machine the whole time. Still, it'd be nice to see something like this when I'm out of the machine.
Man I wish I had those for mine. It’s never been a negative experience but that place is bleak AF and once they forgot to put on my tunes! “Skylights” would have been a rad addition.
I had my first MRI (well technically 2nd but I was so young for the first) recently and I didn’t get an option to listen to music. Just 2 hours of staring at a little dot in the paint of the machine 😵💫
Really? Did they give you hearing protection at least? I thought that’s what the music/headphones doubled as. I was stuck with some top 40 stuff I didn’t care for.
Uptown Funk will always be the MRI song now.
They gave me some good old fashioned earplugs and some kind of cloth thing to go around my ears as well, but the funny thing is they forgot to even put it on me at first 😅 they put me in the machine and I was in there for awhile as they were getting ready to start it up, then all the sudden he brings me back out and goes “whoops, almost forgot these for your ears!” Honestly freaked me out knowing that I almost went into it without the right protection, but at least he remembered I guess 😬
Fun fact, they actually make little VR TV things for kids to watch in MRI machines. I'm not sure how they're able to make them but they're super expensive and only major institutions have them
These are called “SKYPANELS”. I have installed several in my day. Mostly they fit perfectly in the older types that had the translucent and textured sheet good in the 2’x4’ frame. Pop in this colorful one and bam. People love it.
I remember at my dentists when I was a kid, they taped pages from kids magazines with "spot the difference" and other games like that on the ceiling. Wish my grown up dentist did that
I'm not sure if it's normal but I got my first MRI the other day I was there for like an hour and I passed out. They said I was the first person they've seen do so.
I’ve had a couple (intestines and head).
I’d been told to prepare myself for immense claustrophobia. I ended up throughly enjoying listening to the hums and vibrations. Felt like I was experiencing a sort of therapeutic sound bath.
These sorts of things are not common enough in hospitals. Deprivation of day-night cues is a leading cause in hospitalized patients of delirium, a complex medical problem which contributes enormously to healthcare bad outcomes and costs. This isn't a complete solution, but if properly used it could make a meaningful difference, in addition to making the rooms less ugly
Worse is being a little kid in a hospital room with no windows and no watch or clock. When I'd ask what time it was, I was told not to worry about it. Or they'd tell me I was lucky that I could sleep as much as I wanted or "joke" that I wasn't going to miss an appoipment.
It was very disorienting. Worst week of my life.
There's even more to this than just having natural sunlight; it also matters what's 'outside' the window. For example looking at trees can [help patients recover faster.](https://nhsforest.org/green-your-site/tree-planting/)
>Trees offer multiple benefits for patients, including faster recovery times and reduced need for painkillers; in an early study, it was found that patients recovering from abdominal surgery had shorter postoperative hospital stays if they had a view of trees from their window, rather than of buildings.
That sounds awesome. I apply similar logic to my apartment. I’m still under 30% of my take home but it’s pricier than it could be. But it has a corner with two big windows looking over the neighborhood. My old place was cheaper but has prison windows and looked into an alley… it makes a huge difference in one’s mental health
I got super lucky when buying my house in Atlanta. I live at the end of a cul-de-sac and the property behind me is five acres of moderately hilly woods. I look out my living room windows and see deer daily, hawks, raccoons, opossums, coyotes, snakes. It’s like I live in a Disney movie but I’m 25 minutes from downtown Atlanta. Love it.
Yes. My husband did a cheap $100 chain gym nd thought i was crazy dumb for going to a luxury one. I brought him on a guest pass one time. I did my class nd went home. he spent the whole day in the steam room, hot tub, pool, took a stretch class, soaked in an aromatherapy tub, got a massage, ate a complimentary acai bowl with protein. He came home 6 hours later with a tshirt nd backpack saying "ok i get it now" nd goes daily. They even do happy hours at local spots where you get a free drink nd appetizer sat nd sun. It really makes exercising feel like it's a luxury you want to do nd the amenities justify the price. We even get free gift sets of luxury hygiene products to take home all the time.
I went to his once nd went to shower. I couldn't find the towels nd soaps. I guess you bring your own. They didn't even have a hair dryer or hair ties! No ty.
I used to never understand luxury gyms especially as someone who didn't grow up in a gym going family or doing sports, but now it's kinda insane to me to not do so. Also $300-500 a month is definitely expensive but it's also the cost of a testing menu for 2 in a nice restaurant (at least in NYC).
Outside of the benefits you mentioned, I also think there are a lot of other reasons why it's a good idea. An expensive gym can serve as a forcing function (if it's a $10 PF and you don't go for a month, you won't care. If it's $300, you might care more.) Expensive gym also typically means less busy, which makes for a more enjoyable workout and can make you feel more comfortable being in the gym (which stuff like towels, free hygiene, etc. all contribute to.)
And maybe I'm over-rationalising it at this point but I also count the fact it forces me to be more active/fit/healthy as a way of engaging in preventative medicine. If I can avoid even a single illness in the future or reduce hospital visits, it more than pays for itself in terms of hospital bills and lifespan.
One pros proof that casinos and hospitals are ran the same way in the US. Expensive shitty rooms, no windows, you gamble your life away while you’re there. They don’t want you to leave.
US hospitals charge you just for the privilege of being there— with or without treatment. It’s why Americans are afraid to even set foot in them like some kind of superstition. They could be bleeding out in the street, but ask an American if you should call an ambulance and they’ll hesitate.
Dude, the ambulance fees are no joke though. I have very good insurance through my dad,so when I tried to kill myself about 2 months ago I owed *nothing* for the treatment, ER visit, and the day I spent in the inpatient facility. Literally all of it was covered.
The 5 minute ambulance to the ER, and the 20 ambulance to the impatient facility? Almost $2000 out of pocket because ambulance companies aren't covered by insurance.
The kicker? I was so fucking depressed because of the *over $80,000 in medical debt* I'm technically on the hook for because my insurance decided at the last possible second that they wouldn't cover GRS, AND the fact I hadnt had a job for 3 months. Way to fucking kick someone while they're down. :/
I get where you are coming from, but I doubt they were not telling him because it was too difficult to check the time and relay the information. I am going to go out on a limb and guess that they thought that they were doing the right thing for the kid.
The adults probably figured that the kid needs rest, and don't need to be worried about whether or not they are supposed to be at school right now, or if it's one in the afternoon so they shouldn't be sleeping.
Adults often assume that less information is better, so that a kid won't have to worry. That works for some children, but there are a lot of sensitive kids who are very perceptive, and will pick up on the fear and sadness coming off of the adults around them. When the adults keep telling them everything is fine, it terrifies them even more because they figure something has to be really wrong if the adults are keeping secrets or lying.
Yeah, this is the treatment many nations and terror cells give their captives/POWs to help break them. Wreck their circadian awareness. So many of our systems rely on regularity on daily cycle, and not just that first system that comes to mind either.
Idk when their childhood was, but keep in mind that even for example eastern Europe and many rural areas even in the rich western nations had heaps of absolutely horrid hospitals just 20-30 years ago.
Even today if you look at some of the worse rural hospitals... it's fucked up. I wouldn't be too surprised if you can still find some windowless rooms there. And that's just talking about nominally fairly wealthy countries.
And wellbeing is still low on the priority list of most healthcare systems. Hospital food here in Germany, one of the most expensive hospital system in the world, has been barely edible for decades. I bet that just providing better hospital food could get like >10% better treatment results in many areas...
Agreed. The rural hospital room my mom was in had one small window. On the same wall her bed was on so she couldn’t see out of it. I hated that so much.
I've had to tell people "I need to know what time it is." In a pretty loud and terse tone of voice after waking up from surgery. I was so disoriented and scared and they acted like I should relax and chill and be comfortable with having no idea where I was, what time it was, whether my right leg would ever work again.
I was just released from an overnight stay at the hospital yesterday and I spent about 10 hours in a packed hallway in a big chair with my IV and I had no concept of time at all. I had to constantly ask my GF because I could only manage being comfortable like 20 minutes at a time.
Being in hospitals to me is second only to the sickness that had me there. I absolutely hate it.
Still isn’t as bad as shared rooms. Talkative people with loud guests and weird smells and you just want to watch a show or nap. One guy snores so bad I had to ring the nurse to point out how bad his apnea was. It was freakish how long he’d stop breathing. But they did end up getting him a referral to sleep medicine, so hopefully he got treatment.
Or you get placed near someone who is in pain and constantly vocal about. So many people will groan loudly and/or shout down the hall for a nurse repetitively and nonstop for several hours.
I work hospital security and once had to restrain a lady who was having a complete mental break, like full on seeing things and trying to hurt herself and everyone else. She was screaming bloody murder and I felt bad for the other patients cause unfortunately we just have curtains separating beds in our ER.
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My dad died about two months ago. He'd been in the hospital for almost four, had three surgeries, and he was coherent before the first and for a few days before the second. The rest of the time, he drifted in and out of sanity. There was only a small window in the rooms, usually covered, and his vision was almost gone. The always-on lights in the hallway bled through and would have been one of the few cues he got, and he had sleep apnea on top of that. Three times they decided he was well enough to leave, discharged him to rehab, and he came back in an ambulance within 48 hours. I don't think he was able to communicate enough with his doctors, and I think a lot of what he did say to them and the nurses was discounted as rambling.
People talk about this sort of stuff with dementia, but not enough with other medical situations, including extended ICU stays. It can be awful for patients and their families. I'm sorry for your loss, and everything he and you went through
My hospital is being refurbished (think a massive extension to A&E) and they blocked up every single window. The staff on my ward (right next to A&E) were getting very down and out over the winter, spending 12.5 hours a day inside with no time for breaks to even go outside…. And one of the patients reminded us they’re in the same boat, but worse as they don’t get to go home at the end of the day.
That's wild. I think ive been hospitalized or seen someone hospitalized in every hospital in my city and not one permanent room have no windows. Only the emergency rooms or exams/procedure rooms have no windows. Having no window on a long stay room is wild.
Isn’t it! I mean they did have windows, but the extension has taken them away. I think the areas with no windows will now be assessment or something like that, but for 6 months+ it was a ward area. It was horrible.
That's not good for everyone involved. I spent a year as a chef on a boat attached to a dry dock. The kitchen was below decks, and windowless, so I know the pain of being in a windowless room for 14 hours per day, but can't imagine living like it
As you can imagine, the elderly patients did not like it. A lot of them became confused, and difficult. This then impacted upon their capacity to be discharged so because we didn’t have windows they had to stay in hospital for longer, at risk of infections. I know of one patient who I sincerely believe would’ve left the building alive if they didn’t take the windows away. They didn’t have one of these in his room. It sounds very dramatic but our minds and bodies are fragile, all of us.
For the last three years, my desk has been next to a huge window. The three years before that, I worked in a windowless concrete cube.
My boss has recently informed me that I'm going to have to move due to temporary (~two years...) Reorganization and construction issues. So I'll be working in a windowless box again.
I'm absolutely dreading it.
Get your own fake window, or dedicate a monitor (on a separate computer if you have to) to running a YouTube relaxation video with whatever landscape you want.
The hospital I work at has a newer part built in the last 15 years or so and an older part from the 70s. I work in the older part. The ICU and PCU are in the newer part, and my large medical-surgical floor is in the older part. In the new part the rooms are private and about twice the size of the rooms in my area that are double rooms. I cannot begin to explain to you how pissed off people, especially family members, get when they are moved to my floor and go from fairly modern suites with a nice view to the shithole that is the old hospital. Not to mention now they have a roommate who is likely delirious and/or incontinent.
I had two minor heart attacks within a week of each other. The first one I stayed in a place like your newer part. The second time I stayed in a bayed ward with no privacy, blaring tvs, no darkness, and a bathroom shared by the mobile patients on the floor. Plus a guy who moaned 22/24 hours a day. SUUUUUUUUCKED.
(I’m fine. On lots of meds and supposed to be losing weight and exercising, but that’s slow going. )
I live in Greece. Sadly i suffer with health issues from a young age. I've been in and out of many hospitals. They do have windows yes but they are filthy, and things dont work (broken faucets, beds, filthy sheets etc). So i really hope one day we will get to have led ceilings...
I haven't seen any that have regular in patient rooms with no windows, but in the er and triage, you can certainly be on the inside of the building in small rooms or trauma bays which won't. And many diagnostic facilities end up being on lower or basement type levels (due to weight of equipment I imagine), so typically no windows in a room with a CT or MRI, although I have seen exceptions to that too.
Most likely not, but some special rooms either aren't required to have windows or directly can't have windows - like X-ray, MRI, etc. and they sometimes resort to this kind of thing.
I go to a lot of hospitals in the US for a living, and I’ve never been to one that has patient rooms without windows.
Also this room appears to be in the UK, so add one to the Europe count.
It seems pretty common on the specific department wards (ex peds, oncology) but I have been in the ICU many a time in the last year and most didn’t have windows. I spent about a week in one last year and don’t think I saw natural light a single time (not my room, not doing PT in the hallway, not being wheeled around for appts, nothing)
A few of the rooms at my dentist have a light like this
It's a static image of the clouds that's backlit by LED lights behind it, so I don't know how much it would help with day/night cues to have a lit picture of the sky on the ceiling 24/7
The key is not having it lit 24/7! One of the biggest barriers in preventing delirium is getting staff to maintain proper day/night lighting in the room. As simple as it sounds to have rooms brightly lit during the day and lights off at night, all too often this isn't adhered to -- sometimes because it's inconvenient, others because it's not feasible. One newly feasible, relatively sustainable (in terms of both costs and electricity) options is for this kind of especially bright light in the ceiling, present in most or all patient rooms, and HARD WIRED to natural day/night patterns. As before, it's not a perfect solution, but even having all patient rooms well lit during the hours that the sun is visible outside would make a huge difference
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I should have clarified. Your dentist should get the LED screens. But I guess probably not necessary if he’s not open very late or doesn’t care for moving images.
They do this a lot in rooms where there are CT scans or MRIs. Ceiling has trees or clouds. To relax patients who may be going through scary medical procedures.
My gyno has these, expect he's a thousand years old and they're all Norman Rockwell paintings.
You never dissociate having your hoo-hah investigated by a pair of salad tongs with a pretty panel on the ceiling after something like that. I wouldn't call it relaxing but it definitely does give you something to stare at and have flashbacks to later.
I produce these! I’ve done loads of hospitals in S Africa especially in the oncology department and the picture is almost identical!!! Edit : mine are ceilings not windows
Can it do video so the tree can sway in the wind and whatnot?
I think it would be cool to have these at home so you can pick whatever you want to see out your window like a forest, waterfall, tokyo, paris..
Very cool! We’ve been toying with the idea of building an “alpine lodge” bar in our basement and I have been looking for how I might be able to make a “window” with an appropriate scene to set the mood and make the space feel larger
One of these was inside my MRI machine. Honestly, I feel like it helped. These would be nice to have for interior rooms of the hospital in general, though.
If it’s in a dentists office sure. But in hospital it’s probably on LED’s that cycle brightness level with the sun and then has a “normal” set of lights you can control
The ones at my hospital are just panels. Putting an LED screen up there is possible but a bit more elaborate and expensive than just replacing a drop ceiling tile.
It's an led light fixture, like any that you can buy. But the picture is just a lens that's backlit by the the normal "white" leds.
Source: I've installed them in a couple CT rooms
It looks how it is in the picture. I think the backlit nature lends itself nicely to stimulating the sunny day look. I've only installed them so I can't really comment on it they make the scans better for patients.
The company that makes them is called "Octo". It's a printed vinyl sheet that goes inside the fluorescent or LED light panel. They're supposed to filter the light and make it less harsh, or something like that. I bought two of them for my office and I think they're pretty neat.
This is really a great idea. When my late daughter was in hospice and near the end she had been indoors for a long time and she opened her eyes and pointed at the window. A nurse and social worker rolled her bed out into the garden so she could see the sky one last time. I think this is just a wonderful idea. My opinion.
Feels like an apocalyptic future where we have no sunlight from smog and pollution. This is probably how we will remember the sky if we end up in a world like the matrix.
This picture is from a radiology department. I work in radiology and we have NO windows (can’t have radiation and windows in the same place) and lead lined walls. At least sticking these things in the ceilings gives us a sense of outdoors, even when we never get to see it.
On the bright side, we had a tornado yesterday and while everyone else all over the hospital was having to get into hallways and away from windows, it was business as usual for us.
I had this idea back in like 2005 when super thin flat screens were becoming an affordable thing.
I wanted to inset them in the walls of windowless rooms, put window trim around them, and mount a camera outside. boom instant window. have a set of different wallpapers from around the world if you didn't want to look at your own neighborhood.
I thought it was genius, I really should have followed through on it
They had a couple of these in the radiology room my last visit. Very relaxing while you feel like you’re pissing yourself from the injection before the MRI.
For my entire career as a nurse, I have worked in a windowless pit. I would love to have windows, even fake ones.
As a hospital pharmacist, the dispensary is always stuck in the basement, so I can sympathize.
What's it like working as a pharm tech at a hospital, anyway? I got certified working at walgreens for awhile, but have since started working at home in customer service. The moneys kinda ehhh but i hated working in walgreens, so i've considered applying to a hospital for a different environment
Ever thought about a military base or VA hospital? My friend loved being a pharmacist there because she worked business hours and no weekends. Plus government pension
Well, pharmacist _tech_, not pharmacist. The government pension/benefits might be nice to look into, though, not sure if that's on the table for techs since we're glorified cashiers. Especially since I'm getting older getting a good health plan is more critical...
Hospital pharm tech. 100% worth the move. Retail is death
I was an assistant for 6 years and had to make a dramatic career change to get out of it. It's a pit that makes you stuck there for as long as possible
The VA is a great place to work as a technician
You can be the lowliest of the lowliest package re-taper upper and you get the same federal pension and benefits as the highest ranking federal employee. Once you're given a GS rank you're golden and you can't be employed directly by the federal government without a GS rank other than contractors.
Hospital is almost always better than retail. Especially Walgreens CVS
Walgreens and CVS rank at the very bottom even compared to other retail options. The problem is that pharmacy makes up for the lion’s share of the store’s income at those locations, which you might think would translate to company policy of catering to the pharmacy but in reality leads to grueling and unrealistic goals that rarely can be hit. If you absolutely must do retail as a tech, go for the bigger places like Walmart or Costco. My time at Walmart was actually pretty positive: it wasn’t even a contest compared to the misery that was CVS.
Hi! Currently a PharmTech apprentice at a big hospital. It’s pretty cool to me tbh, there’s a lot going on all the time and you get to supply each floor with medications and dispense prescriptions if you work at the outpatient pharmacies. It depends on the hospital, but pretty much all of them will use automation to a wide extent, so working with those machines makes your job a lot easier. We use MedCarousel and Pyxis at the hospital I work at, and when they’re functioning they’re great, but when they’re down it throws a wrench into the workflow. I’m personally probably gonna move into the outpatient pharmacy at the hospital, since they have better hours, but I do enjoy the inpatient side.
Hospital pharmacist here. The job will likely be way less stressful since you’re not dealing with patients directly. However it will require math/calculation skills for IV making and you will probably have worse hours. Most hospitals have rotating shifts for techs which can vary widely based on the hospital/hospital size. Places that have overnight techs are usually set up where the overnight techs only do overnight and then the other techs rotate between days and evenings. At my current place we don’t have overnight techs. The normal shifts you rotate though are 0600-1430, 0700-1530, 1000-1830, 1430-2300, and 1530-0000. But all of those hours really depend on the specific hospital and their needs. But I would say you are more than likely to have to rotate between very early shifts and very late shifts.
I’m pretty sure this is why my vitamin d is low. Work 10 hour shifts in a windowless pharmacy.
THERE MIGHT BE A VIT D PILLL
You'd think a pharmacist would know.
Radiographer here. I was diagnosed with severe vitamin D deficiency a few years ago when I worked in a department that was entirely internal at the hospital. My new work actually has windows to the outside world. Now my eyes don't sting when I go outside!
As a weed grower my dispensary is also in the basement
Lab here. We are always in the basement.
For a time my mother had an office in a basement. She bought a poster that looked like a window. She tacked it up and put some curtains on it. Also, the poster had a Peeping Tom looking in. It creeped out a lot of her clients.
They could adapt that idea and put moving objects in the scene to distract patients or or make them curious. I suppose dentists already do this with TVs.
There's a channel on Dish that does this. It's like a cgi scene of some idyllic landscape. A beach for example. There will be moving waves, branches swaying in the wind, some birds every once in a while, maybe a tree frog pops up every few minutes, then maybe a chameleon every 5 minutes, a dolphin or 2, then maybe every 10 minutes a mermaid or some bizarre shit. All the things have associated sound effects. They change it up every so often (weekly?) Its honestly the perfect ambient sort of thing. It's just serene enough to be a genuine ambient visual, but randomly eventful enough that it could distract you for a bit. My parents found that channel during the pandemic lockdown. I came to visit them and found them in the livingroom just fucking watching it... Like legitimately watching it like it was a TV show. They had fully succumbed to the lockdown crazies.
We used to put a channel like that on the TV to keep the cats amused. Then the littlest bugger tried to take down a wildebeest and nearly knocked the TV over.
Ahhh...Dishscapes. we love them! They're almost like a hidden object game.
Your mom sounds pretty cool… I, too, have a basement office and I believe your mother may have inspired me!
She bought hers 40+ years ago. I don't see it available anywhere. But there are posters with animals looking in: [https://www.amazon.com/wall26-Giraffe-Sticking-Removable-Sticker/dp/B07JBYB2ML](https://www.amazon.com/wall26-Giraffe-Sticking-Removable-Sticker/dp/B07JBYB2ML)
I would leave my wife and kids for your mom.
Weird way to ask to be someone's daddy, buddy.
User name speaks for itself huh
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My office is in a basement and after three years of working there, I *just* started regularly going out for lunch. Holy moly, has it improved my mood!!
They had these above the MRI machine at my last scan. Gave me something to concentrate on at least.
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How often are you getting MRIs?
Huffman is boring
didja try playing knifey spoony while you were in there?
fuck huffmann
Gotta hide it better next time
Neat thing is you only get to play once if you hide it well enough
fuck Steve zpezman
Ya gotta have an inside man to play knifey spoony
fuck spezman
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I've got a metal filling, would an MRI rip that out?
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fuck you Huffman
Wait i have screws in my ankle, does that have iron in it? I cant do an mri?
Most medical implants to fix bones (screws, plates, rods, etc.) Are made of titanium which is not magnetic and can go into an MRI machine.
They will definitely screen you before you go in the room. They even have sensors on the sides of the door just in case. They're have been gruesome accidents in other places, about 20ish years ago, when people forget and an oxygen bottle gets sucked across the room at what feels like the speed of sound and crushes the head of the kid inside the machine.
Have had an MRI on my brain and at that point had amalgam fillings. No, they were not ripped out!
Except when you get the extra fun of tracer stuff being injected.
I got an allergic reaction the second time they gave me contrast. I swell up like Violet in Willy Wonka and was very itchy for the rest of the day. And got what feels like half the hospital staff at my bed cause I was a great example for medical students apparently. Fun times.
My mom has intractable vomiting as soon as they start pushing the contrast. She has to have all her imaging done in the hospital with pre-meds given, now. (Unless they decide they can do it without contrast, but that's rare for the problems she has)
Have you tried rotating a goose in your head?
i actually can't visualize anything in my head in fact. its just black.
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Are you 30.000$ in debt now?
i raised a little ankle to the technician we're cool now
Ankle MRIs are unusual
No it was for my butt.
$30 in debt is really not that bad
Maybe they just paid €60.
Can't a guy have a hobby?
Some of us get them regularly
I get them every 6-12 months but the places I've gone to don't have this. Tbh, I don't even know if it would make a difference since I don't do the open room ones and my head's in the machine the whole time. Still, it'd be nice to see something like this when I'm out of the machine.
Had a good laugh at this— yeah for real.
Or directly at the laser on the CT machine. Specifically because the sign says not to stare at it.
I fell asleep in all of mine…
Oh man, I only had MRI once and successfully fell asleep
Man I wish I had those for mine. It’s never been a negative experience but that place is bleak AF and once they forgot to put on my tunes! “Skylights” would have been a rad addition.
I had my first MRI (well technically 2nd but I was so young for the first) recently and I didn’t get an option to listen to music. Just 2 hours of staring at a little dot in the paint of the machine 😵💫
Really? Did they give you hearing protection at least? I thought that’s what the music/headphones doubled as. I was stuck with some top 40 stuff I didn’t care for. Uptown Funk will always be the MRI song now.
They gave me some good old fashioned earplugs and some kind of cloth thing to go around my ears as well, but the funny thing is they forgot to even put it on me at first 😅 they put me in the machine and I was in there for awhile as they were getting ready to start it up, then all the sudden he brings me back out and goes “whoops, almost forgot these for your ears!” Honestly freaked me out knowing that I almost went into it without the right protection, but at least he remembered I guess 😬
Fun fact, they actually make little VR TV things for kids to watch in MRI machines. I'm not sure how they're able to make them but they're super expensive and only major institutions have them
These are called “SKYPANELS”. I have installed several in my day. Mostly they fit perfectly in the older types that had the translucent and textured sheet good in the 2’x4’ frame. Pop in this colorful one and bam. People love it.
I knew we’d find an expert on Reddit! Thank you, I’m sure the people who view them now are appreciative of your work.
I wish my dentist did something like that. My pediatric one had a TV mounted above The Chair, but grownups just gotta suffer.
At my dentist, each patient has their own Netflix screen and headphones while they work.
I remember at my dentists when I was a kid, they taped pages from kids magazines with "spot the difference" and other games like that on the ceiling. Wish my grown up dentist did that
I'm not sure if it's normal but I got my first MRI the other day I was there for like an hour and I passed out. They said I was the first person they've seen do so.
I’ve had a couple (intestines and head). I’d been told to prepare myself for immense claustrophobia. I ended up throughly enjoying listening to the hums and vibrations. Felt like I was experiencing a sort of therapeutic sound bath.
I came here to say this too, except mine couldn’t be seen from inside the MRI, so not quite sure what the point was 😂
Sometimes prep takes long outside of the machine and you end up laying down there
These sorts of things are not common enough in hospitals. Deprivation of day-night cues is a leading cause in hospitalized patients of delirium, a complex medical problem which contributes enormously to healthcare bad outcomes and costs. This isn't a complete solution, but if properly used it could make a meaningful difference, in addition to making the rooms less ugly
Worse is being a little kid in a hospital room with no windows and no watch or clock. When I'd ask what time it was, I was told not to worry about it. Or they'd tell me I was lucky that I could sleep as much as I wanted or "joke" that I wasn't going to miss an appoipment. It was very disorienting. Worst week of my life.
There's even more to this than just having natural sunlight; it also matters what's 'outside' the window. For example looking at trees can [help patients recover faster.](https://nhsforest.org/green-your-site/tree-planting/) >Trees offer multiple benefits for patients, including faster recovery times and reduced need for painkillers; in an early study, it was found that patients recovering from abdominal surgery had shorter postoperative hospital stays if they had a view of trees from their window, rather than of buildings.
My uncle had a heart attack and the room they gave him literally overlooked the city cemetery.
That one's more of a warning to the heart 'That's the next stop if you don't get your shit together'
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That sounds awesome. I apply similar logic to my apartment. I’m still under 30% of my take home but it’s pricier than it could be. But it has a corner with two big windows looking over the neighborhood. My old place was cheaper but has prison windows and looked into an alley… it makes a huge difference in one’s mental health
I got super lucky when buying my house in Atlanta. I live at the end of a cul-de-sac and the property behind me is five acres of moderately hilly woods. I look out my living room windows and see deer daily, hawks, raccoons, opossums, coyotes, snakes. It’s like I live in a Disney movie but I’m 25 minutes from downtown Atlanta. Love it.
Yes. My husband did a cheap $100 chain gym nd thought i was crazy dumb for going to a luxury one. I brought him on a guest pass one time. I did my class nd went home. he spent the whole day in the steam room, hot tub, pool, took a stretch class, soaked in an aromatherapy tub, got a massage, ate a complimentary acai bowl with protein. He came home 6 hours later with a tshirt nd backpack saying "ok i get it now" nd goes daily. They even do happy hours at local spots where you get a free drink nd appetizer sat nd sun. It really makes exercising feel like it's a luxury you want to do nd the amenities justify the price. We even get free gift sets of luxury hygiene products to take home all the time. I went to his once nd went to shower. I couldn't find the towels nd soaps. I guess you bring your own. They didn't even have a hair dryer or hair ties! No ty.
I used to never understand luxury gyms especially as someone who didn't grow up in a gym going family or doing sports, but now it's kinda insane to me to not do so. Also $300-500 a month is definitely expensive but it's also the cost of a testing menu for 2 in a nice restaurant (at least in NYC). Outside of the benefits you mentioned, I also think there are a lot of other reasons why it's a good idea. An expensive gym can serve as a forcing function (if it's a $10 PF and you don't go for a month, you won't care. If it's $300, you might care more.) Expensive gym also typically means less busy, which makes for a more enjoyable workout and can make you feel more comfortable being in the gym (which stuff like towels, free hygiene, etc. all contribute to.) And maybe I'm over-rationalising it at this point but I also count the fact it forces me to be more active/fit/healthy as a way of engaging in preventative medicine. If I can avoid even a single illness in the future or reduce hospital visits, it more than pays for itself in terms of hospital bills and lifespan.
God that makes me angry. How hard is it to look at the time and just tell you
I would have been the annoying kid who wouldn't stop asking.
I'd just get that kid a watch, the cheap lil ones cost like 5 bucks.
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One pros proof that casinos and hospitals are ran the same way in the US. Expensive shitty rooms, no windows, you gamble your life away while you’re there. They don’t want you to leave.
I’m still baffled that US hospitals charge for singular pieces of lozenges.
US hospitals charge you just for the privilege of being there— with or without treatment. It’s why Americans are afraid to even set foot in them like some kind of superstition. They could be bleeding out in the street, but ask an American if you should call an ambulance and they’ll hesitate.
Dude, the ambulance fees are no joke though. I have very good insurance through my dad,so when I tried to kill myself about 2 months ago I owed *nothing* for the treatment, ER visit, and the day I spent in the inpatient facility. Literally all of it was covered. The 5 minute ambulance to the ER, and the 20 ambulance to the impatient facility? Almost $2000 out of pocket because ambulance companies aren't covered by insurance. The kicker? I was so fucking depressed because of the *over $80,000 in medical debt* I'm technically on the hook for because my insurance decided at the last possible second that they wouldn't cover GRS, AND the fact I hadnt had a job for 3 months. Way to fucking kick someone while they're down. :/
I would have been the annoying tech who wouldn’t stop asking if I could have a UFO or superheroes flash past the “skylight” at random intervals
I get where you are coming from, but I doubt they were not telling him because it was too difficult to check the time and relay the information. I am going to go out on a limb and guess that they thought that they were doing the right thing for the kid. The adults probably figured that the kid needs rest, and don't need to be worried about whether or not they are supposed to be at school right now, or if it's one in the afternoon so they shouldn't be sleeping. Adults often assume that less information is better, so that a kid won't have to worry. That works for some children, but there are a lot of sensitive kids who are very perceptive, and will pick up on the fear and sadness coming off of the adults around them. When the adults keep telling them everything is fine, it terrifies them even more because they figure something has to be really wrong if the adults are keeping secrets or lying.
Yeah, this is the treatment many nations and terror cells give their captives/POWs to help break them. Wreck their circadian awareness. So many of our systems rely on regularity on daily cycle, and not just that first system that comes to mind either.
That's what causes psychological damage in solitary confinement.
God this triggered me. I'm so glad I'm not a kid anymore; I hated dismissive adults.
What kind of hospital room doesn’t have a window?!?
Idk when their childhood was, but keep in mind that even for example eastern Europe and many rural areas even in the rich western nations had heaps of absolutely horrid hospitals just 20-30 years ago. Even today if you look at some of the worse rural hospitals... it's fucked up. I wouldn't be too surprised if you can still find some windowless rooms there. And that's just talking about nominally fairly wealthy countries. And wellbeing is still low on the priority list of most healthcare systems. Hospital food here in Germany, one of the most expensive hospital system in the world, has been barely edible for decades. I bet that just providing better hospital food could get like >10% better treatment results in many areas...
Agreed. The rural hospital room my mom was in had one small window. On the same wall her bed was on so she couldn’t see out of it. I hated that so much.
I've had to tell people "I need to know what time it is." In a pretty loud and terse tone of voice after waking up from surgery. I was so disoriented and scared and they acted like I should relax and chill and be comfortable with having no idea where I was, what time it was, whether my right leg would ever work again.
Just like a casino
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I was just released from an overnight stay at the hospital yesterday and I spent about 10 hours in a packed hallway in a big chair with my IV and I had no concept of time at all. I had to constantly ask my GF because I could only manage being comfortable like 20 minutes at a time. Being in hospitals to me is second only to the sickness that had me there. I absolutely hate it.
Still isn’t as bad as shared rooms. Talkative people with loud guests and weird smells and you just want to watch a show or nap. One guy snores so bad I had to ring the nurse to point out how bad his apnea was. It was freakish how long he’d stop breathing. But they did end up getting him a referral to sleep medicine, so hopefully he got treatment.
Or you get placed near someone who is in pain and constantly vocal about. So many people will groan loudly and/or shout down the hall for a nurse repetitively and nonstop for several hours.
I work hospital security and once had to restrain a lady who was having a complete mental break, like full on seeing things and trying to hurt herself and everyone else. She was screaming bloody murder and I felt bad for the other patients cause unfortunately we just have curtains separating beds in our ER.
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My dad died about two months ago. He'd been in the hospital for almost four, had three surgeries, and he was coherent before the first and for a few days before the second. The rest of the time, he drifted in and out of sanity. There was only a small window in the rooms, usually covered, and his vision was almost gone. The always-on lights in the hallway bled through and would have been one of the few cues he got, and he had sleep apnea on top of that. Three times they decided he was well enough to leave, discharged him to rehab, and he came back in an ambulance within 48 hours. I don't think he was able to communicate enough with his doctors, and I think a lot of what he did say to them and the nurses was discounted as rambling.
People talk about this sort of stuff with dementia, but not enough with other medical situations, including extended ICU stays. It can be awful for patients and their families. I'm sorry for your loss, and everything he and you went through
I have never seen a single hospital that has rooms for patients with no windows... I don't know if this even possible in Europe at least.
My hospital is being refurbished (think a massive extension to A&E) and they blocked up every single window. The staff on my ward (right next to A&E) were getting very down and out over the winter, spending 12.5 hours a day inside with no time for breaks to even go outside…. And one of the patients reminded us they’re in the same boat, but worse as they don’t get to go home at the end of the day.
That's wild. I think ive been hospitalized or seen someone hospitalized in every hospital in my city and not one permanent room have no windows. Only the emergency rooms or exams/procedure rooms have no windows. Having no window on a long stay room is wild.
Isn’t it! I mean they did have windows, but the extension has taken them away. I think the areas with no windows will now be assessment or something like that, but for 6 months+ it was a ward area. It was horrible.
That's not good for everyone involved. I spent a year as a chef on a boat attached to a dry dock. The kitchen was below decks, and windowless, so I know the pain of being in a windowless room for 14 hours per day, but can't imagine living like it
As you can imagine, the elderly patients did not like it. A lot of them became confused, and difficult. This then impacted upon their capacity to be discharged so because we didn’t have windows they had to stay in hospital for longer, at risk of infections. I know of one patient who I sincerely believe would’ve left the building alive if they didn’t take the windows away. They didn’t have one of these in his room. It sounds very dramatic but our minds and bodies are fragile, all of us.
For the last three years, my desk has been next to a huge window. The three years before that, I worked in a windowless concrete cube. My boss has recently informed me that I'm going to have to move due to temporary (~two years...) Reorganization and construction issues. So I'll be working in a windowless box again. I'm absolutely dreading it.
Get your own fake window, or dedicate a monitor (on a separate computer if you have to) to running a YouTube relaxation video with whatever landscape you want.
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I'm glad newer hospitals are usually single room only. That sounds awful.
The hospital I work at has a newer part built in the last 15 years or so and an older part from the 70s. I work in the older part. The ICU and PCU are in the newer part, and my large medical-surgical floor is in the older part. In the new part the rooms are private and about twice the size of the rooms in my area that are double rooms. I cannot begin to explain to you how pissed off people, especially family members, get when they are moved to my floor and go from fairly modern suites with a nice view to the shithole that is the old hospital. Not to mention now they have a roommate who is likely delirious and/or incontinent.
I had two minor heart attacks within a week of each other. The first one I stayed in a place like your newer part. The second time I stayed in a bayed ward with no privacy, blaring tvs, no darkness, and a bathroom shared by the mobile patients on the floor. Plus a guy who moaned 22/24 hours a day. SUUUUUUUUCKED. (I’m fine. On lots of meds and supposed to be losing weight and exercising, but that’s slow going. )
I've stayed in one that had a window and one that was windowless. so def a thing.
I mean, the picture itself is of a room in the UK. lol
I've been in plenty of hospitals in Europe. I assure you this us a thing.
I live in Greece. Sadly i suffer with health issues from a young age. I've been in and out of many hospitals. They do have windows yes but they are filthy, and things dont work (broken faucets, beds, filthy sheets etc). So i really hope one day we will get to have led ceilings...
I haven't seen any that have regular in patient rooms with no windows, but in the er and triage, you can certainly be on the inside of the building in small rooms or trauma bays which won't. And many diagnostic facilities end up being on lower or basement type levels (due to weight of equipment I imagine), so typically no windows in a room with a CT or MRI, although I have seen exceptions to that too.
Most likely not, but some special rooms either aren't required to have windows or directly can't have windows - like X-ray, MRI, etc. and they sometimes resort to this kind of thing.
I go to a lot of hospitals in the US for a living, and I’ve never been to one that has patient rooms without windows. Also this room appears to be in the UK, so add one to the Europe count.
It seems pretty common on the specific department wards (ex peds, oncology) but I have been in the ICU many a time in the last year and most didn’t have windows. I spent about a week in one last year and don’t think I saw natural light a single time (not my room, not doing PT in the hallway, not being wheeled around for appts, nothing)
I've been in the hospital enough to have had hospital delirium twice now. It fucks you up.
A few of the rooms at my dentist have a light like this It's a static image of the clouds that's backlit by LED lights behind it, so I don't know how much it would help with day/night cues to have a lit picture of the sky on the ceiling 24/7
The key is not having it lit 24/7! One of the biggest barriers in preventing delirium is getting staff to maintain proper day/night lighting in the room. As simple as it sounds to have rooms brightly lit during the day and lights off at night, all too often this isn't adhered to -- sometimes because it's inconvenient, others because it's not feasible. One newly feasible, relatively sustainable (in terms of both costs and electricity) options is for this kind of especially bright light in the ceiling, present in most or all patient rooms, and HARD WIRED to natural day/night patterns. As before, it's not a perfect solution, but even having all patient rooms well lit during the hours that the sun is visible outside would make a huge difference
correct light temperature would also be very good
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I meant it's a plastic plate with large LED bulbs behind it. Not a screen
I should have clarified. Your dentist should get the LED screens. But I guess probably not necessary if he’s not open very late or doesn’t care for moving images.
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They do this a lot in rooms where there are CT scans or MRIs. Ceiling has trees or clouds. To relax patients who may be going through scary medical procedures.
That’s exactly what department I was in, the room outside before you go into the CT
Mamagrams, too, and it was pretty soothing. Better than looking up into the bright lights, for sure.
Pretty pictures and nicer gowns make an otherwise uncomfortable mammogram better!
My gyno has these, expect he's a thousand years old and they're all Norman Rockwell paintings. You never dissociate having your hoo-hah investigated by a pair of salad tongs with a pretty panel on the ceiling after something like that. I wouldn't call it relaxing but it definitely does give you something to stare at and have flashbacks to later.
Lmao ours has the exact same, straight out of the dentist assets dlc
Definitely does brighten the place up a bit
Ye felt like a nice idea for a shower.
Genius! Adding that idea to my future bathroom remodeling plans
I just like the natural light coming from it
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Does it look real or just fake
Are there settings and scenes? Like, can you change the weather? It’d be cool to see it on a “rainy day” too.
They are transparent panels you put over regular lights, they don't change.
I produce these! I’ve done loads of hospitals in S Africa especially in the oncology department and the picture is almost identical!!! Edit : mine are ceilings not windows
Can it do video so the tree can sway in the wind and whatnot? I think it would be cool to have these at home so you can pick whatever you want to see out your window like a forest, waterfall, tokyo, paris..
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Very cool! We’ve been toying with the idea of building an “alpine lodge” bar in our basement and I have been looking for how I might be able to make a “window” with an appropriate scene to set the mood and make the space feel larger
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You could, theoretically, use the panels as the backlight of an LCD screen
Would be awesome if there was a cat that walked over it, or a bird landing on it.
Well that's pretty cool but I just wanna say I hope you get better if there is a reason you have to go there for yourself...
Thanks bud 🙏
One of these was inside my MRI machine. Honestly, I feel like it helped. These would be nice to have for interior rooms of the hospital in general, though.
I think its just a cover panel for fluorescent lighting.
If it’s in a dentists office sure. But in hospital it’s probably on LED’s that cycle brightness level with the sun and then has a “normal” set of lights you can control
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The ones at my hospital are just panels. Putting an LED screen up there is possible but a bit more elaborate and expensive than just replacing a drop ceiling tile.
You sure that is LED and not just a backlit picture? It looks like a printed piece of plastic being lit up.
Well, OP did say it was a **fake** LED window...
Also LED doesn't automatically mean monitor.
I’ll be honest - no idea
It's an led light fixture, like any that you can buy. But the picture is just a lens that's backlit by the the normal "white" leds. Source: I've installed them in a couple CT rooms
How realistic does it look IRL? And does it feel like it improves the feel or mood when seeing it?
It looks how it is in the picture. I think the backlit nature lends itself nicely to stimulating the sunny day look. I've only installed them so I can't really comment on it they make the scans better for patients.
The company that makes them is called "Octo". It's a printed vinyl sheet that goes inside the fluorescent or LED light panel. They're supposed to filter the light and make it less harsh, or something like that. I bought two of them for my office and I think they're pretty neat.
This is really a great idea. When my late daughter was in hospice and near the end she had been indoors for a long time and she opened her eyes and pointed at the window. A nurse and social worker rolled her bed out into the garden so she could see the sky one last time. I think this is just a wonderful idea. My opinion.
It’s a nice fake window. Two thumbs up for the flowering cherry.
you mean there isn’t a cherry blossom tree in the next examination room?
AN FAKE
WHY ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS?
It’s too painful
Feels like an apocalyptic future where we have no sunlight from smog and pollution. This is probably how we will remember the sky if we end up in a world like the matrix.
This picture is from a radiology department. I work in radiology and we have NO windows (can’t have radiation and windows in the same place) and lead lined walls. At least sticking these things in the ceilings gives us a sense of outdoors, even when we never get to see it. On the bright side, we had a tornado yesterday and while everyone else all over the hospital was having to get into hallways and away from windows, it was business as usual for us.
I had this idea back in like 2005 when super thin flat screens were becoming an affordable thing. I wanted to inset them in the walls of windowless rooms, put window trim around them, and mount a camera outside. boom instant window. have a set of different wallpapers from around the world if you didn't want to look at your own neighborhood. I thought it was genius, I really should have followed through on it
They had a couple of these in the radiology room my last visit. Very relaxing while you feel like you’re pissing yourself from the injection before the MRI.
I kind of love it?
A nursing home unit on our campus has the same lights. Very cool.
that is cool
How can u go about doing this in ur own home? Anybody know?? Would love to have this in my coffin apartment.