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[> Subject: There's Another Privacy Design I Once Saw
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Author:
Frank
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Date Posted: 06:40:31 07/08/09 Wed
A while back I visited a doctor's office which had a rare design for patient privacy instead of curtains. The exam rooms were kind of like airport mens' or ladies' rooms.
They had no doors, but had three turns to enter, a right,
a left, then another right, with short corridors between.
That way, no one could see inside as they walked by, and if person had to speak to the doctor, or deliver something, she could make the first one or two turns, but never enter the examination room itself after calling out to the doctor.
The only drawback, to me, was that there was no assurance that someone couldn't walk in, unheard, because of the soft
carpet. Still, if the staff was trained in how the system works, this arrangement is effective. From a cost basis, I imagine it is more expensive to build and reduces the number of examination rooms that will fit in the office.
I suspect that it was not originally designed to be a doctor's office, and that's why I'd never seen one like that before or since. It did work, though.
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