“That is one nutty hospital.”
- Jeff (Bill Murray)/Tootsie
Who likes to go to the hospital? No one I ever met. They're places no one wants to go and everyone wants to get out of. They're necessary, for sure, but still...
They are places of ultimate human dramas. No wonder they make great settings for TV shows. Grey's Anatomy has run for 22 seasons. ER ran for 15 seasons, Scrubs, 10 seasons, General Hospital has been on the air continuously since 1963. I worked in one for a decade. There was never a shortage of emotions in the atmosphere. Every day at a hospital there is life and death, good news and bad news, elation and sorrow, broken bones and broken spirits, love, compassion and healing.
Needless to say (If it's needless to say, why am I saying it?) , the hospital is fertile ground for songwriters - reality and metaphors everywhere.