Comment on Are shops in the US usually this run down looking?

• norbert@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if our hospital architecture affects medical staffs attitude towards patients.

  The other commenter replied that in their opinion leadership, organizational, and financial priorities are setting health care workers up for failure. Implying those areas might be more impactful re: medical staffs attitude than the architecture of the hospital.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True, I did mention the staff. But the variable in question that I was wondering about is whether the architecture affects the staff in that way. In this case the staff are just passively refracting the pattern from the architecture.

    It’s a far out theory. It’s far more likely that the administrative culture has a much bigger effect.

    My question was really: could the attitude toward patients be altered merely by changing the hospital’s building architecture, in a way to put more emphasis on the person?

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    • norbert@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All things being equal it seems like the environment/design of the hospital should have a measurable impact on at least some percentage of patients.

      I don't have any expertise but taken to an extreme, patients in stark, depressing settings must have worse recovery rates than ones in aesthetically pleasing, happy ones right?

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