today i was at mass ave station on the orange line and an elderly woman fell down the stairs and hit her head. i was glad to help in some way, and that she didn’t seem to be horribly injured.
that’s all, i guess. i also hope she had insurance. god i really hope so.
it reminded me of what happened to put my grandmum in the nursing home.
but i am definitely among the best at executing them. i feel that kind of singlemindedness is my greatest strength and weakness. i have to complete the picture, start my own search.
surreally, the tennis bubble was completely missing today. i have pictures to prove it, unless, of course, they don’t turn out (i used film). it wasn’t there, i swear.
i know it sounds strange but i feel like lately i have had photographic memories of memories that don’t exist.
but in reality, i’m looking for ways in which all my interests can be integrated.
here’s one example:
how can architecture of hospitals and other buildings encourage collaboration among doctors and researchers? and how can it help speed up patient care by funneling patients to the right places? why do patients have to get horribly lost in hospitals? (this is just one experience i had volunteering at brigham and women’s hospital as an ambassador.) you could analyze all the movements and patient traffic through webcams and image processing. or just from chipped patient cards/bracelets, and move departments around to fix the problems.
unfortunately, this isn’t SimHospital where you can just swap departments and move buildings. there was an interesting post at freakonomics blog a while ago that talked about how sometimes problems are hard to solve because stuff is entrenched, but how you still should occasionally think of solutions that require everything to be rebuilt from the ground up anyway, because a lot of times, those turn out to be the best solutions anyway. i think redesigning existing hospitals in this fashion is one of those hard to solve problems.