It just occurred to me...

[darsynia]

...that I can't remember if the infirmary rooms have earth doors or not. Like, in my mind, they sectioned off rooms in the infirmary that have actual honest-to-goodness doors in them, not activated by the hand thingies (because if you're sick or injured and can't somehow get to those, having a door that's already wide open is a boon... plus putting myself in the shoes of a medical professional, the last thing I want to do is make it possible for doors to malfunction and someone die on the other side when I could have just turned a knob and gotten inside, you know?). But we've seen a lot of the infirmary, beds and the like, and while a lot of the heavy-duty stuff was done in 'labs' (like the exploding tumor surgery, Michael's transformations, Ronon's detox, etc.), there are scenes (such as in Echoes) where we see hospital beds and people are clearly in rooms. Can I make up an area of the infirmary where people who need to be there for longer than a few days are in rooms with real earth doors, or do I have to edit what I've already written to take out the 'door is half open,' 'he kicks the door shut' kinds of references?

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Comments

I may be wrong...

[littleblueghost.livejournal.com]

The only doors I can remember are the Atlantean ones when the city was in lockdown and Ronon and Jennifer are trying to get out by exploding oxygen bottles...That was the infirmary, wasn't it?

But you could put earth doors in with the reference that the infirmary/longer term ward area has Atlantean doors around the whole are so that it can be locked down...

Re: I may be wrong...

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

Yeah--the thing is, I can't remember if there are many scenes with one bed by itself in a room, which I would assume there are in their infirmary, but we've just never seen them. If we haven't, and have only seen multiple beds for brief stays, then my writing single rooms with earth doors as a sort of compartmented thing that the expedition mocked up won't be too crazy.

[sorchasilver.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, I can't really picture the infirmary with that sort of door, actually. I think that I've gotten so used to reading the Atlantis-style doors in fic that anything else would seem weird.

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think if I DO decide to do it, it'll be referencing a single room, long-term care area that we've never seen on screen.

[patk.livejournal.com]

Just because we never see something doesn't mean it isn't there. *G* Do we even know that the infirmary is the *original* Atlantean infirmary or did the expedition just use rooms big enough and close enough to, say, the gateroom? If they turned big rooms that were used otherwise by the Ancients into an infirmary, they could easily have installed earth-like doors to create separate sections, smaller rooms for patients that require quiet etc.

I think what we see and know about the infirmary's layout is less enough that you can make a case for the doors you want without contradicting the canonical setting in a big way.

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

Hee, I like this comment a lot because it makes me think I could pull this off :D My idea is, essentially, that they have a few wide open rooms that have been converted into smaller ones, and that the protocol is that there's ALWAYS a member of the medical staff in each one at a workstation (if there are patients in residence) so that if a lockdown occurs, it doesn't trap people without ways to be treated.

[lyricmaniac.livejournal.com]

I'm a little confused by this entry. What is this about? What are earth doors? Are you a doctor in a hospital?

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

Hehe, this is a classic case of me thinking everyone's in my brain. I am a huge fan of Stargate Atlantis, and that's what I was referring to--I write fanfiction (peruse my tags with prudence!), and was working on something only to realize that I'd made a pretty big continuity/technical error in assuming the doors on the Atlantis base were 'earth doors,' rather than the kind most of the base has, which aren't like that at all. *blush*

[lyricmaniac.livejournal.com]

OH! I was VERY confused. My hub watched that show for a bit, but I never could get into it. This makes much more sense now.