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Getting hospitalized should be like flying first-class

By Mark Vanderbeeken - February 27, 2010

in Design Business

PriestmanGoode, a London design house that has worked on everything from cell phones to speakers to first-class cabins for Swiss Airlines, has developed -- at the request of UK's Design Council -- a radical solution to how hospital wards should be designed. Fast Company reports:

"PG has just released their proposal today, in a "healthcare manifesto." The central problems facing hospital design happen to have already been solved in the design of first-class cabins for airlines, they say. "

Strange though that the article and the manifesto don't say a word about the quality of medical care.

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Steve Clifford

14 years ago

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How does this concept help prevent the spreading of MRSA and other hospital-acquired infection? An open area, like this proposal, breeds bacterial abundance. Is this concept geared more toward an ICU setting or Med-surg? Privacy is a huge issue here.
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Steve Wanless

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Really... I would asked to be moved if I was taken to that hospital. It might look cool, but it doesn't look very practical and has zero privacy. No thank you.
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