Depends on a hospital.
And the person.

I have so bad memories from hospitals of a litime and especially last year that I rather die than go in any hospital, at least in USA.

Let's put it this way:
Hospitals and EMS fail in recognizing people who are blind or visually impaired.

ER doctors have talked to my husband to ask about my symptoms while I am lying on a hospital bed, and fully conscious. WTF?! Jusf because my eyes don't have the same type of funtional vision as yours, why do I need an interprete? Oh yea beacuse I don't see, right...
So I don't know what hospitals I've been in because they don't always actually inform the patient.

I also wish every medical staff would quit ever trying to do stroke diagnostics on me.
I have a non-24h circadian rhythm, what a surprise. I try to regulate my sleep/awake schedule. English being my third language I may form a bit odd sentences to a native speakersʻ shall we say, eyes?

I don't even know how I can find out in this country if I have been diagnozed with a seizure. Guess how fun that is...

Medical records belong to the corporation, not the patient. That depends on the state you live in. US is definitely the most stressful place for any medical needs of all the countries I've lived in on three different continents.

It would probably be less stressful if I had been always completely blind.

For my boyfriend, who is completely blind, it is pretty much impossible without assistance from a staff member. There may be Braille on the wayfinding signs, but most blind people don't know or use Braille.

i hate unfamiliar hospitals. I know they can only make the signs so big, but it slows me down having to walk all the way over to one and scan down the list of wings/departments. I know it seems trivial, but it's a real pain especially if you're in a hurry and at every corridor you have to stop and repeat the process at each sign.


I do like the color coded lines that some use (whether on the floors or walls)

It depends, the hospital I visit to have my eyes checked out and where they are doing research on me is very difficult to get around because of all the poorly planned extensions that keep getting added on. I have also had to visit people in different hospitals this past year, the one in particular is much smaller, more linear, and more easily navigable. If I am struggling I just have someone lead me to the room, it's usually not a big deal. I will be volunteering in a hospital coming up in about a week and they showed me around where I will be working. That is going to take some getting used to.

Hospitals are terrible. Especially in Canada, where they're almost always overcrowded; good luck getting anywhere when there are masses of people sitting/standing in every waiting room, stretchers in the halls, hand-washing stations that you are required to use before entering particular areas (but of course the hand-washing station is nowhere near the actual entry to the area in question), almost no Braille signs, etc, etc, etc. Also, whenever I am in a hospital, it's either because I'm feeling sick or in pain myself, or someone close to me is sick. So the fact that I'm extremely stressed/upset doesn't make the already difficult task of navigating a hospital any easier at all. If a family member is sick enough to be in the hospital, I'm probably just not even going to try; I'll ask for help to find them, so I can preserve what little cheer I have for the time I spend visiting them. Being there for my friends and family is more important to me than the pride I take in my independence.

At a new place, it can be overwhelming for me. My father has been hospitalized so many times at one hospital I can find my way very easily.

That being said, I have had multiple doctors give me printouts of information. That has certainly been a WTF moment.

The hospital I attend the most is an old victorian hospital that has had loads of modern extensions built on to it, as a result it is a huge confusing labyrinthine mess even for the fully sighted.

I normally have to ask for a hospital porter to take me in a wheelchair (I do have walking problems too) otherwise it would take me forever to reach whatever dept. I'm going too.

While I do have some limited sight, I have a white cane - 9/10 times when my name is called in the waiting room, even after seeing me with my white cane the staff member will disappear up some corridor without waiting to see if I'm behind them.

Most hospitals I've been too is pretty much the same experience - confusing, disorientating.

Anybody?