Beyond hospital corridors, art offers another kind of healing

A hospital visit rarely begins with treatment or seeing a doctor. It begins with waiting — and figuring out where to go next. Visits can stretch for hours, with patients moving between tests, examinations, registrations and payments. Even the most self-assured can feel helpless and lost, suddenly dependent on a system they do not fully understand. That sense of vulnerability can make the most ordinary hospital surroundings — rows of chairs, fluorescent lights, a closed examination-room door — fe