Day 3 - Discovering doctors with a difference

It can be interesting how we usually have a preconceived notion about how things should look and feel. A supermarket looks like this, a hospital looks like that. And then you have an experience which challenges these notions of how things should be. Today I accompanied a family member to the local doctor’s surgery and it almost blew me away. Instead of the standard clinical, sterile environment, the Saunders Street Surgery (which is in Jackson Street) resembles a high end European café or restaurant lounge. Not just the free coffee machine as you waltz through the century old carved wooden doors, or the plush armchairs and ottomans, the leather bound reading volumes or the tri-chimney fireplace, but the whole atmosphere of relaxed style, art and beautiful working/waiting environment.

I love to see creative ideas like this that challenge the norms, and inspire me to do the same. I mean, why can’t we all strive to work and live in a beautiful space?

If you’re going to get sick in Tassie, I recommend you go here and have your expectations of a traditional doctor’s surgery put to rest. I know that’s where I’ll be going.