Though there are many people shuffling around, the lobby of Harris Hospital Downtown is very cold. I was immediatley drawn to this space since I am a nursing student and it is the location of one of my clinicals. I had never noticed how large and somewhat dark the lobby seemed. The popcorn vendors and starbucks present in the lobby have been shown to me in a new light as I walk through as an observer rather than a worker. Hospitals are an ominous place for most, yet there are many things in the lobby (gift shop, popcorn venders, starbucks) that would make one think otherwise. In the public areas it does not seem as if this is a place where people are struggling to breathe every breath. It has more of a warm feel but it is easy to sense that these distractions, like the smell of the coffee brewing behind the starbucks counter, are just covering up what is happening only floors above.
People in this almost everyone. Kids, infants, teens, parents, and grandparents can be seen in just one quick scan of the room. There is a blend of all different types of ethnicities and everyone seems in somewhat of a calm panic. In the corner there resides a fireplace, unused, in the midst of the crowds of people walking through the lobby.
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