Hospital Observation Essay

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Hospital Observation Composition 2 Omar Kempson Everest University October 30, 2013 Walking in to hospitals always gave me conflicting feelings probably because it is place of health, healing, life and death neatly rolled in one. Walking through the sliding doors the air rushes you, clean and crisp. The atmosphere subtle and somewhat subdued you can at times pick out the emotions that float by. At first you can’t help but, notice the lights with an alarming brightness that’s like an assault on the rental. Always when I arrive I go straight to the front desk for directions which are never clear the security guard usually an older Blackman gives you instructions like go to the B elevators not the first set but the one around the corner take it to the 11th and the patient is in room 1145b to the right of the nurses’ station. I always foul up the directions and find myself at the nurses’ station asking again where is the patients’ room is located. My dislike for hospitals is known to everyone close to me but, I brave the trips out of a greater need to show support to family and friends. The frustration of even finding the entrance begins my downward spiral of dislike. There has to be at least 5 entrances and if you go through the wrong one you just might surely end up on the wrong side of the building. On one of my many sojourners’ to the large mass of contradictions we call hospitals I arrived for a late visit to drop off some fruit to my moms who was undergoing a gall stone removal surgery. Night visits are never the same as the day time the hallways are not buzzing with chatter from doctors and nurses hustling to and from rooms. The solemn quietness is eerie even haunting, you can always faintly hear vital monitoring machines peeping in its monotone drone like way in the distance. I had just made it to the building in time for the last hour of visiting I
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