A hospital for your ambition
Oct. 9th, 2008 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaWhat 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 ?
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 ?
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Date: 2008-10-09 02:49 pm (UTC)The only time I went there was for the Eye Hospital bit, which involved cycling across Oxford in the dead of night with one hand clasped to my excruciatingly painful eye. I hadn't called an ambulance, out of some confused feeling that it was poor etiquette to do so for oneself.
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Date: 2008-10-09 11:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-10 03:15 pm (UTC)"The site has been earmarked for expansion of the humanities and mathematics departments in the University of Oxford."
... so I presume the latter.