# Why are hospitals so devilishly uncomfortable? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-hospitals-so-devilishly-uncomfortable/968722 "2022-07-28T15:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-hospitals-so-devilishly-uncomfortable/968722/30 "2022-07-28T18:54:51Z")
I linked to an article In this thread about the importance of sleep and it discusses some efforts to improve this for patients. > [@Circadian Medicine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circadian-medicine/967911): > > I’m kind of fascinated by this article in the New York Times Magazine. Everyone knows that the body has a sleep/wake cycle regulated by ambient light and hormones like melatonin. This article discusses newer research saying half the genes in the body are timed. The possible implications range from UV light being many times more damaging at 4am than 4pm, when to best take medicines, digest food and many other major processes. We know a lot less about this stuff than we should. I say this as … I worked in a hospital where the menu was designed and cooked by volunteer chefs from the community who picked inexpensive and healthy ingredients and made them delicious. People used to actually come to the hospital just to eat at the cafeteria. (Then we got some administrators from the Big City who felt our hospital should use the same big companies as bigger hospitals. They did not save much money, the quality plummeted and they alienated selfless and knowledgeable volunteers. But apart from that it was a great success. The food was okay, maybe more convenient to distribute, just not delicious). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-hospitals-so-devilishly-uncomfortable/968722)._