r/funny • u/Danaysexxxy • 2d ago
The hospital tried a new method to get more business 😂😂
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u/Oathbreaker94 2d ago
It’s an emergency door. It creates emergencies.
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u/The_Great_Squijibo 2d ago
whatever you do, DON'T exit the FIRE door.
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u/technobrendo 2d ago
What about the machine gun door, please tell me that is safe!
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u/Chaosmusic 2d ago
We don't talk about razor blade blender door.
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u/SpockIsMyHomeboy 1d ago
Doesn't that one always open to the Pool of Isopropyl Alcohol door directly afterward?
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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 1d ago
The only safe door is the one in the vault.
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u/Chubuwee 12h ago
I took a harassment training at work, and I got so good at harassment. Earned my Black Dick Belt in harassment
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u/ParkingNo1080 2d ago
Not even painted a different colour
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u/selenesuper 2d ago
perfect camoufludge
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u/zane910 2d ago
"As you can see, the pole disguises itself so seamlessly with it's environment as it waits for it's next victim.
Waiting until at the right moment, the victim stumbles into it's trap and falls prey to an absurd medical bill soon after. Extraordinary."
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u/SaltyShawarma 1d ago
In one of the old Ultima games, one of the toughest enemies was "the floor." Must be cousin to, "the post."
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u/EchoStarz1 2d ago
I would definitely run into that
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u/Danaysexxxy 2d ago
That's the Idea! 😀
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u/DesireeThymes 2d ago
At least paint it a different color like orange or something
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u/anthem47 1d ago
Is this your content? Because, random side compliment, you have a great voice and I want to hear you do an audiobook now, haha.
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u/magicarnival 1d ago
Unlikely to be OP's video, since it was also posted earlier here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/s/V3aJ3nfIuC
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u/Chinese_Lover89 2d ago
What evil mind even designed that. Like someone sketched the design, probably held a presentation about it, got funding, approached this hospital to sell his stupid doors, hospital loved it and now this evil contraption exists.
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u/Desperate2LearnMagic 2d ago
Recruiters should be talking to the hospital and finding the salesperson for that door, they must be incredible at their job.
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u/shpydar 2d ago
It's a bad design, absolutely.... but I think it's designed that way for security reasons.... but this is just a guess.
My wife is an RN at our local hospital and mostly works nights. To control who comes in and out of the hospital at night they lock all doors except entry to emerg. They use mag locks to secure the doors and don't use sliding doors. but nightly when I drop her off at work at a side entrance that is open during the day that she can open with her ID badge there are almost always some idiot not reading the signs banging, kicking and yanking on the locked doors as hard as they can like maniacs... she often has to call security to have them cleared before she can enter because they will try and force their way in behind her.
The problem with those doors is that a power outage automatically unlocks all the mag locked doors... which really sucks because she works in a locked mental health unit. As soon as the mag locks fail they have to rush to secure the exits to stop runners.
Sliding doors are notoriously easy to break into. Even locked ones, a good swift kick right where the two doors come together is often enough to pop them open. Having that centre pole allows the doors to be secured to it making it much harder to break open.
my guess is it is a security feature.... but an extremely dumb one.
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u/TotoCocoAndBeaks 1d ago
Thing is, with the pole in the middle, the door might as well be a single door. Its double-door accessibility benefits are nullified.
So make a single door, and go buckwild on security requirements. Don't do something stupid like this.
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u/Black_Moons 1d ago
Yea, a single door just 50% wider would be much better here. The double doors are so you don't have to get perfect alignment to get a gurney through it.
Guarantee some hands are gonna get squished now.
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u/Currentlybaconing 1d ago
I've been in the presence of a double wide sliding door. It actually ended up creating a similar hazard to this one, just different.
You walk at the middle of it expecting a normal middle out opener, but it opens from one side. Three indistinct panels move into overlapped position on the other side, still in your way
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u/insane_contin 1d ago
The problem with those doors is that a power outage automatically unlocks all the mag locked doors
So they took the Jurassic Park idea of locking doors and applied it to a mental health hospital.
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u/DrDerpberg 1d ago
It's probably cheaper. Or maybe it's meant for places with two aisles and a central divider.
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u/feor1300 1d ago
It is two separate automatic doors sharing a common central post.
My money says it was 1 door and a window in the original design, but someone at some point said they didn't think it looked wide enough, so told them to make it twice as wide, and rather than redesign the wall they just swapped out the window with a second door.
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u/rishim007 2d ago
Well now dont mock their sales tactics....😔
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u/Danaysexxxy 2d ago
But I don't look at my phone while walking so I am not the target demographic hehe
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u/Oathbreaker94 2d ago
I‘m certain I’d hit this post even without looking down on my phone. It’s just so… unexpected.
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u/DrunkCupid 2d ago
I had to get wheeled around by downright imbicels after I broke my leg in 3 places and they couldn't look up from their phone long enough to keep me falling off a curb (multiple times) let alone navigate a door where I got spilled out of my chair again
Some people ..
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u/lurkynumber5 2d ago
This is the most evil automatic door design I've seen.
They could have made the pillar a different color...
The designer must be lurking on r/foundsatan
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u/FutureLost 2d ago
Okay, real talk, how could this have happened? It's as if they wanted the doors to open that wide, but that much empty space meant they needed a load-bearing pillar...but that they didn't change the initial "wide door" requirement??? This is the most "built my three separate committees" design flaw I've ever seen.
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u/lolwatisdis 2d ago
or the builder cheaped out / used what they had and put two independent, mirrored single doors side by side instead of the one double door pair that literally everyone would expect it to be
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u/Evadrepus 2d ago
Yup, that's exactly it. You can see from the outside that not only are they not aligned straight on a plane (that one bar is actually two), the sensors are operating independently.
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u/Fivefinger_Delta 2d ago
They could put a barrier down the middle either side of the door and make it a separated entry and exit system. You can already see there are two separate sensors for each door.
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u/technobrendo 2d ago
Exactly. Big hardware stores like Home Depot have doors much bigger than this, both in their height and the width of their opening. Those setups obviously don't need a load bearing beam in the middle and neither should this thing.
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u/Uther-Lightbringer 15m ago
Breaking News - Load bearing headers exist that can safely widen openings, more at 11.
Quick someone get this headline to the builder
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u/Real_Azenomei 1d ago
He's walking in the middle of the huge path triggering both sensors. It's two doors -_- Usually it would have a entrance and exit sticker on the door so you walk on the right side.
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u/Nonhinged 2d ago
It's just two doors right next to each other.
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u/Catsrules 1d ago
Yeah, I would just make one door and entrance and the other door and exit. Just put signage on both doors to differentiate between them. That should solve most of the issues.
Also coloring the bar in the middle would help as well.
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u/williamBoshi 2d ago
Please tell me it's ai ragebait
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u/Chillydunlap99 2d ago
nope. that door has been that way for many years. St. Thomas West hospital in Nashville, tn
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u/Chillydunlap99 1d ago
I'm not saying it's the right way to do it or not but there are compelling arguments for this style and I don't think it exists only in the south.
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u/Chillydunlap99 1d ago
Are the mullions used in double doorways in public buildings all over the US or just in the South?
Removable and fixed mullions are used in public buildings all across the entire United States, not just in the South. [1]
While climate factors like extreme southern heat or intense northern snowstorms influence how a building is insulated, the use of mullions is primarily driven by national structural, safety, and security codes rather than regional geography.
Why Mullions Are Used Nationwide
- Wind and Structural Load: In coastal southern states, mullions help doors withstand hurricane-force winds. However, in the Midwest and Northeast, they are equally critical to prevent doors from blowing open or warping under intense winter wind loads and heavy snow drifting against the glass.
- National Security Standards: Public buildings nationwide—including schools, government offices, and courthouses—utilize center mullions to prevent "forced entry." Without a solid center post, a double door can often be pried open by jimmying the gap between the two leaves.
- Uniform Building Codes: The International Building Code (IBC) and NFPA 101 Life Safety Code govern building construction in all 50 states. These codes mandate strict structural latching requirements for exit doors in high-occupancy public spaces, making mullions a standard architectural feature from coast to coast.
- Standardized Manufacturing: Major commercial door and hardware manufacturers, such as Von Duprin and Sargent Lock, distribute their removable and fixed mullion systems uniformly to construction projects across the entire country.
If you are researching a specific project, let me know if you are looking at a school, government facility, or commercial space, or if you need help finding local building code requirements for a specific city.
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u/Chillydunlap99 1d ago
in the case of this hospital and the location of that door I'm sure it's the security aspect they were going for. I've been in there and that door is not the only or main door in and out of that space. At night it gets locked and people are routed closer the the security desk.
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u/Chillydunlap99 1d ago
Why do you think that door has been there for years passing fire dept and other building inspections? I didn't build the damn thing and yes, I think it could be done better. I just confirmed it wasn't AI because I've seen it. Not sure why you need to insult an eye witness to this fucking door?
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u/Blackrain1299 1d ago
Two clips are too consistent with the interior of the hospital. Unlikely to be ai.
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u/ace-destrier 1d ago edited 1d ago
They trigger to open really late as well. That’s definitely a trap lol
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u/AnxietyNo7712 1d ago
Went to the hospital for a kidney stone, left with a broken hand. Yeah the nurse accidentally slammed my hand in a very heavy door when I needed help going to the bathroom. 🙄😭
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u/gortez33 2d ago
Everyone saying this was made so the hospital would generate more money. It will cost them millions in lawsuits. Those posts are removable.
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u/BrainOnBlue 2d ago
It's worrying how many people are taking the obvious joke post title seriously.
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u/wikiwakatikitaka 2d ago
You’re probably right because I don’t understand how can the hospital not be identified yet.
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u/Chillydunlap99 2d ago
It's St. Thomas West in Nashville. Door has been there a long time
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u/wikiwakatikitaka 1d ago
Thanks. Are the posts removable then or are they as dangerous as implied by OP’s post?
If the hospital is identifiable then there’s no way the door is really structured that way, is it?
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u/Chillydunlap99 1d ago
That I don't know. But I've been there many times over 40 years and the door is still there so I'm guessing it's not as big a problem as it seems for this video.
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u/wikiwakatikitaka 1d ago
Forgive me this is really not an interrogation, but you got me confused. You’ve been there many times but you don’t recall if there’s a post in the middle?
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u/Chillydunlap99 1d ago
There is and always has been a post. I said "I don't know" to your question of it being "removable". I don't think they have been considered dangerous because they have been that way for a very long time. Surely if someone had been hurt it would have changed?
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u/wikiwakatikitaka 1d ago
My bad. Gotcha. That looks truly dangerous to me, and this being posted in r/funny I couldn’t tell if the danger of it was the funny or that the whole video was a joke video from the start.
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u/babaroga73 1d ago
Easy fix. Paint the pole red/yellow to draw attention to it, and paint arrows or something left and right of it, and a warning in the middle on the floor.
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u/Jamnoggin 1d ago
I mean.. two small separating railings each side and some entrance/exit or IN/OUT signage would fix the problem… but the fact the problem exists in the first place is the problem.
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u/swampboy62 1d ago
That's incredibly bad design.
But it could be fixed so easily. Instead of having one sensor that operates both doors it needs individual sensors for each door, set up so that their sensing areas don't overlap. That way only one would open at a time, and the center mullion wouldn't come into play.
Really though the design of the doors is poor. Auto opener with a hidden mullion - I'm going to remember that one.
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u/jmsvrsn 22h ago
It's hard to tell from the video, but every set of of this kind of door that I have seen has separate sensors for each door. If that is indeed the case then each door has a switch and/or knob that controls when the door opens. If that's not the case they could easily be retrofitted with them so that when you approach only the door on your right opens. That still leaves the problem of two people approaching from opposite directions.
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u/2cool4skool369 1d ago
Crazy that someone went to school for several years and got an engineering degree. Was hired by a firm and designed this. Then a group of other engineers with degrees reviewed and signed off on this design. Then an architect with similar credentials, who was responsible for designing this entry way, saw this design and thought it was the best option for the entry… of an emergency room or hospital.
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u/PouLS_PL 2d ago
Reminds me of the owner of a funeral home that was caught driving 249 km/h where the speed limit was 50 km/h
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u/dillanthumous 2d ago
At the very least some yellow stickers are warranted. Or disable one half of the door.
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u/Chaosmusic 2d ago
What's the issue? It's not like anyone ever enters a hospital in a rushed or panicked state.
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u/Blackrain1299 1d ago
Needs some kind of signage perpendicular to the door so it funnels people left or right and not into the center.
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u/ReverseFred 1d ago
It looks like aluminum to me.
Perfectly matches the finish of the door and trim, which are certainly extruded aluminum.
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u/junomint 1d ago
This looks like the bangor hospital, im just glad they attempted to modernize if so lol
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u/WyldfireGT 1d ago
99.9% sure this is Saint Thomas West in Nashville, TN. I work there sometimes and usually end up going in that entrance and can't help but think to myself "why?"
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u/NeonAnderson 2d ago
That has to be to create more injuries intentionally!!! Like wtf why is that not even painted or taped up in a clear pattern to show that it is a pole there
A warning sign above the door would also be much appreciated
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u/rygel_fievel 2d ago
With the health care system up shit creek and so many hospitals closing, gotta generate revenue some other way. I would certainly have gone exactly in middle.
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u/clayman80 2d ago
The reception clerk is going to wonder why everyone has a bump on their head all of a sudden.
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u/SasquatchsBigDick 2d ago
Do hospital need ... Checks notes... Business ?
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u/iCUman 2d ago
Well, in the American system, it's crucial to the survivability of a hospital because revenue is derived from services rendered. There are some base level government subsidy schemes, though if you've been paying attention to it, recent cuts are heavily impacting hospitals and other care providers: https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/05/01/rural-hospitals-and-communities-feeling-impact-of-h-r-1-medicaid-cuts-rural-health-fund-falls-short/
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u/Acceptable_Honey_223 2d ago
Lol the way they set it up it's literally a trap, not a door. Honestly I'd prob run into it too just to see if the hospital would finally get that "emergency" they're hoping for. Takes "customer acquisition" to a whole new level i guess . gotta respect the hustle though, even if it means a few concussions along the way.
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u/grelgen 1d ago
the problem isn't the door, it's you. why are you walking to the middle of two doors. I bet they intended them to be two way and either some idiot forgot to put the stickers on the window or some administrator told them to take them off. same with the sensors activating both doors, should be 1 door opening per direction
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