A hospital for your ambition

[venta]

What is it with Oxford's hospitals ?

For years, two of the main hospitals in the city were called respectively the John Radcliffe and the Radcliffe Infirmary. People frequently referred to either as "the Radcliffe".

Why yes, since you ask, that did cause quite a lot of confusion.

This morning I headed up to The Nuffield, Headington, for a physio appointment. I was running late (having broken the cardinal rule of Oxford driving, notably do not go up Divinity Road when in a hurry). I then wasted twenty minutes in various different departments until we finally deduced that I should have been at Nuffield Hospital Oxford (The Manor). Which is also in Headington.

Next time anyone builds a hospital in Oxford, can we lobby them to give it a name which is, like, distinct from all the other medical establishments ?

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Ah, I've just been lucky with my queueueuing then, I guess. :D (Or not, given how much time I've wasted in A&E over the years, for different reasons.)

Doh! to the man at The Manor. Yeah, the NHS bit would be a huge clue. At least the two aren't 4 miles apart, anyway.

[venta.livejournal.com]

No, they're merely separated by the London Road roadworks :)

They are pretty close, though. Certainly easier to get between them than from the RI to the JR.

If you've gone to A&E and survived, you are pretty lucky. Both the JR and the RI (not A&E in that case, obviously) have had serious goes at killing friends of mine. I dread injuring myself in Oxford (even more than I dread injuring myself in general).

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

A&E have always been fine (if a bit ineffectual, at least in smallclanger's case - we've checked him out "AMA" [but with full approval from nurses] twice now, since he was clearly better after 4 hours of waiting) - it's the District Nurse system that nearly killed me [warning: link contains some TMI]. Oh, and there was the time I died all by myself on a ward in the JR (April 1994), but they did at least bring me back. :D

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yikes. The TMI sounds thoroughly nasty, and I'm not surprised you were freaked out about it.