Getting Hospitalized Should Be Like Flying First-Class

PriestmanGoode has a radical solution to how hospital wards should be designed.

PriestmanGoode, a London design house, has worked on everything from cell phones to speakers to first-class cabins for Swiss Airlines. But Britain's Design Council, hoping to see what serious design thinking might produce, asked them to work on something completely different: Hospital Wards.

PG has just released their proposal today, in a "healthcare manifesto." The central problems facing hospital design happen...