Everyone knows no one needing a wheelchair gets an ultrasound!

[trouble]

Anyone want to help me figure out why the waiting area for ultrasounds at my local hospital isn't wheelchair accessible, being too narrow?

Comments

[eloriane]

But in the movies, they always put pregnant women into wheelchairs!

Although that could very well be movie shorthand for helpless/ not-a-person/ forget-she's-giving-birth-focus-on-the-DUDES as opposed to, y'know, actual medical practice.

But still. Accessibility FAIL.

ps. hi! I'm a temporarily-able-bodied lurker!

[treeowl]

Nah, some of hospitals have bizarre "all patients must be in wheelchairs when moving from one area to another" policies. I don't know why.

[eloriane]

Oh, I didn't know that. Though maybe that's why I was put in a wheelchair when I broke my hand in first grade?

Of course, that only makes it weirder that part of the hospital would be inaccessible.