Descriptive Essay: The Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital was little more than a large house on a hill in the back bay of Boston, which is exactly where it's stayed since years past when Dr. James Jackson and Dr. John Collins Warren founded it in 1811. Yet, I was brought here was to visit my nephew John Patrick who had fallen ill. The hospital entranceway is stuffy and the air has an undertone of bleach and Windex. The walls are stain glass or a plain white while being covered with various health posters. The pictures on the walls are cheap benign prints of uplifting scenes and above the wide entrance to the private wings are large blue plastic signs with the areas of the hospital that lie ahead. The hallway has as much personality as the rest of the hospital. The floor is slate grey and the walls dove. Above the ceiling is made from those polystyrene squares laid on a grid-like frame. The light is too bright for my eyes after the darkening gloom outside; I find it abrasive, enough perhaps to bring on one of my migraines. There are plaques on the walls dedicated to the doctors who helped to innovate Mass General into what it is today, yet they’re tasteful in the dull kind of way. Risk-takers certainly don’t run this place and I guess I should find comfort in that.
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There was nothing else for the content baby boy to look at other than the faces of the strangers or family coming and going from his room. I could hear cries from an adjacent bed next door to Baby John’s and that at least made me glad for the poorly decorated walls that featured funky looking floors unlike the wallpaper in the halls. It meant we, as a family, didn't have to engage with whoever it was or anyone else for that matter. We did not have to show any sympathy, we did not feel for anyone but Baby John. Yet at the time there was still a strong sense of worry everyone in the family