Tropes about medical facilities, like hospitals, clinics, asylums and hospices.
Hospital Hotties, however, are more about general medical professionals—i.e., people of the Doctor Index, instead of being exclusively tied to medical facilities, so it isn't indexed here.
Ambulance Cuts are more about the medical vehicle, and only distantly connected because there's not too much of a chance it will also involve a hospital.
Sometimes the setting for Medical Horror, and usually where Medical Treatment Tropes happen.
Tropes:
Related indexes:
- Abandoned Hospital: A medical facility which has closed down, either recently, so there may still be some equipment, or long ago, so it's mostly just the crumbling building.
- Abandoned Hospital Awakening: A patient awakens from unconsciousness in a hospital gurney, and then realizes they're the only person in the facility.
- Bedlam House: A mental health institution that's a complete hellhole.
- The Colored Cross: Hospital signs in media are given green or blue crosses or alternate logos.
- Crisis Point Hospital
- Dr. Psych Patient: Listed here because it usually occurs in a mental institution.
- Embarrassing Hospital Gown: Wearing a hospital gown is seen as embarrassing, bothersome, or humorous.
- Flatline: Electrocardiogram lines go flat, to indicate death.
- Funny X-Ray: A radiography negative shows something other than bones, particularly something silly.
- Go Among Mad People: Takes place in asylums, sometimes.
- Hospital Epilogue: The work ends with a character recovering in a hospital.
- Hospital Gurney Scene
- Hospital Paradiso: This hospital has better pay, a better boss, better equipment—but they primarily serve affluent patients, and the doctor who is tempted by a chance to work there decides to forego the career upgrade in order to help poorer patients.
- Hospital Surprise: A character who's expected to die is instead shown recovering in a hospital.
- Hospital Visit Hesitation
- Mountaintop Healthcare: A hospital in a remote location.
- The Patient Has Left the Building: Contextually, the building is always a medical facility.
- Pull the I.V.: The dangerous action of removing your own IV, as preparation to leave the hospital.
- Sickbed Slaying: Murder of those in a bed due to sickness.
- Sickbed Smuggling: Bringing a foreign item/snack/animal to someone in the hospital.
- Unbroken Vigil: If they're ill enough to worry someone overnight, they're ill enough to warrant a hospital.
