{"id":214,"date":"2009-03-01T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2009\/03\/01\/214\/"},"modified":"2014-09-09T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T01:12:13","slug":"214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals — Bring Your Own Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I discussed in my last entry, there’s just something about hospitals, some kind of bad karma attached to most of them. I guess that you can’t expect many good vibes from a place where most people are sick and suffering. But still, there seems to be some sort of “feng shui” problem, some type of institutional coldness, some brand of bad thinking that everyone brings to the place on top of all the problems of the patients. It seems to go all the way back to the people who designed and built the hospital. I’ve heard that modern hospitals are becoming aware of this and are trying to overcome it. (The British NHS even hired a feng shui expert<\/a> to help their hospitals.) <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my mother’s hospital is stuck with the old look and the old feel. Here’s a shot that I took from the outside. Even from this distance, you can just feel the hospital vibes. You know that this is a hospital; and even if they get all the medicine and therapy right, both patients and family members are in for a rough ride. Also, from what I heard, the folks who work there aren’t exactly crazy about the place either (but most of them still do their best out of sympathy for the patients). <\/p>\n

Thank goodness that my mother is now out of there, and let’s hope that she doesn’t need to go back again. I now understand why my brother was so frantic to have someone there with her at all times; you have to bring your own healing atmosphere. Medicare doesn’t pay for it, so the hospital doesn’t provide it.<\/p>\n

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As I discussed in my last entry, there’s just something about hospitals, some kind of bad karma attached to most of them. I guess that you can’t expect many good vibes from a place where most people are sick and suffering. But still, there seems to be some sort of “feng shui” problem, some type […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4594,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/4594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}