Although I do think hospitals could make it more of a staff priority to deal with all the alarms, even when they aren't actually urgent. Annoying!

My one overnight stay in a hospital was near the desk, and it was slamming drawers, loud gossip, and heavy footsteps in an otherwise non-active section of the hospital.

One of the hospital buildings here is old and not in the greatest repair, and you can find yourself in dim hallways where you think "this is right out of a horror movie," especially when you realize you are on the way to the morgue.

Creepy!

In general, I think I've never been in a workplace of any kind that got dark at night. The hall lights are always on!

I find bright, empty hallways to be very creepy, especially at night. It takes away your ability to pretend nothing's there. Which sounds stupid when compared to "empty", but if the monsters don't have shadows to hide in, neither do you.

I got yer dark workplace.

Oddly I always think the Kaiser I go to feels like a movie set because there's so much constant foot traffic, like a pack of extras used to make it look busy.

and it's all due to the staff who don't give a fuck that there are patients trying to sleep and are miserable.

I admit that I am sensitized to this topic right now, but I need to defend hospital staff. I was so moved by how kind and caring and respectful all the staff were to my sister. She wasn't an easy patient, but they were all very patient with her.

Hospital hallways are never as deserted as they are in horror movies, either (shocker). They do dim the lights at night, but nothing is ever completely dark.

None of the hospitals I've stayed in with my parents even dimmed the corridors near their rooms. The therapy rooms and lounge areas might go dark, but all the working hallways stayed lit up with those ghastly flourescent lights at full strength.

I need to defend hospital staff. I was so moved by how kind and caring and respectful all the staff were to my sister. She wasn't an easy patient, but they were all very patient with her.

Yeah, I don't doubt every workplace has it's gossiping and non-job related bustling and noisemaking, etc, but the nights I've spent in the hospital have largely been miserable because the nurses keep tending to the patients 24/7, and because sometimes you have to call doctors in at weird times (or they were dealing with a crisis until a moment ago, and do you want them now, or after breakfast?).

One of the most depressing "I'm not going to sleep, am I?" was in the neuro ward sharing a room with a woman who got hysterical unless there was music playing. It wasn't bad music, but I really wanted quiet. But what can I do?