: Re: Researching a hospital setting I want to use a hospital (specifically, Walter Reed in Bethesda) as a setting. How best do authors research the daily routine? Is there someone I can reach out

One way of getting a feel for a hospital is to sit and write in one (or more) of the public waiting rooms.

Several scenes in my first novel were set in York Hospital and I found it to be very helpful to go and sit in the hospital while I wrote them. This was useful in terms of experiencing the sensory details of sight, sound and smell, which are so vital to the practice of showing the scene. It was also helpful to see the flow of people and procedures, some of which I would not have been able to intuit without being on location.

I'm not sure whether your characters are staff or patients, so I apologise if the waiting room experience is not appropriate for you, but it certainly helped me.

Good luck with your writing.

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