Superstitious

Haunted Hospital! Very thrilling!

Yes I've seen this often. In the hospital in which I trained we went from floor 12 to floor 14. There was a hidden floor between 5 and 6 that housed all the maintenance pipes etc which I thought was pretty cool, but floor 13 did not exist. We didn't have a room 13 either on any floor. It was also an unspoken rule back in the olden days that you shouldn't wear black scrubs in case a patient woke up in a drug-induced haze and thought you were the Grim Reaper. True story.

And let's not forget the very real and horrendous consequences of ever saying "it's a slow night"..... similar to theater folk talking about that Scottish play.

My hospital is built in "wings" with the single and teen room numbers in one wing, then the 20s and 30s in another wing, and the 40s and 50s in another wing. It's just a coincidence that the wing that would have room 13 only has eleven rooms in it, so I don't know how they would have handled it if there was cause for a room 13.

And our hospital isn't tall enough for a 13th floor.

We have room 13 on our units.

interestingly though, the city I live in is starting to skip using 4 in addresses of new subdivisions because the Chinese are superstitious about it and it was effecting housing prices.

I've seen the omission of 666 for room numbers. And that 2 digit number (ending in 9) also known as a particular sex act.

My hospital is built in "wings" with the single and teen room numbers in one wing, then the 20s and 30s in another wing, and the 40s and 50s in another wing. It's just a coincidence that the wing that would have room 13 only has eleven rooms in it, so I don't know how they would have handled it if there was cause for a room 13.

And our hospital isn't tall enough for a 13th floor.

I worked in a Chinese hospital and there was no fourth floor. It went straight from third to fifth. They also tried for quite a while to come up with a standard dress code, but had difficultly due to all the superstitions involving color.

Local hospital does not have room numbers ending in '13'. My former PICU did have one but it was a crappy room we avoided using for anything but the occasional nap on the couch/ break.

A small nursing home I worked at in the 80's had no room 13 ,on either floor.

This is too funny to me, I have never heard of this!