it's interesting to consider the workplace and also the levels of expectation from patients. Their conditioning to expect a certain 'look' has often intrigued me. Years ago I worked in a rehab facility where we had a treatment room very similar to the one in the picture in the post, attached directly to a huge gym. Our patients were residential for three weeks and spent all day Mon-Fri in the facility. When I first started working there I noticed some interesting comments at their individual exit interviews about not having enough 'treatment'. When asked to explain what they perceived as 'treatment' they excluded everything they'd received in the gym and only considered 'treatment' to have been the time they received in the 'treatment' room. To get around this we quickly changed our policy around seeing our patients. In week one we operated appointments in the treatment room with the door closed. In week two the door was open and we operated with no appointments. In week three we operated solely in the gym. We never had another complaint about not receiving enough 'treatment' over the next three years I was there. For me it was always an interesting observation that the spaces actually formed part of the perception of what 'treatment' was, care free of what actually happened.
it's interesting to consider the workplace and also the levels of expectation from patients. Their conditioning to expect a certain 'look' has often intrigued me. Years ago I worked in a rehab facility where we had a treatment room very similar to the one in the picture in the post, attached directly to a huge gym. Our patients were residential for three weeks and spent all day Mon-Fri in the facility. When I first started working there I noticed some interesting comments at their individual exit interviews about not having enough 'treatment'. When asked to explain what they perceived as 'treatment' they excluded everything they'd received in the gym and only considered 'treatment' to have been the time they received in the 'treatment' room. To get around this we quickly changed our policy around seeing our patients. In week one we operated appointments in the treatment room with the door closed. In week two the door was open and we operated with no appointments. In week three we operated solely in the gym. We never had another complaint about not receiving enough 'treatment' over the next three years I was there. For me it was always an interesting observation that the spaces actually formed part of the perception of what 'treatment' was, care free of what actually happened.