The March issue of Doctor's Review alerted me to The Clinic, a medically-themed restaurant and club in Singapore.
* Photos by Yueh-Hua on Flickr, used under Creative Commons license
Patrons sit at operating tables in gold-plated wheelchairs, eat from stainless steel kidney basins and have their drinks hung from IV poles. Operating room lights enhance the ambience.
* Photo by projectnada on Flickr, used under Creative Commons license
* Photo from Max magazine
Apparently the food is fantastic. But what I find most appealing is that medically graphic table conversation would actually be appropriate here:
So I had this patient today with a massive abscess, and I incised it and it must have taken me ten minutes to drain all the purulent discharge from it, it just kept coming. (Short pause as she takes another bite, her fork ringing against the steel bowl.) And then this afternoon a guy came in with an upper GI bleed and as I was taking the history he started vomiting blood. It was actually splashing on the floor . . .
* Photo (L) from Travel + Leisure; Photo (R) from Designboom
That's disgusting!
Posted by: The Other Pete | 03 April 2009 at 08:20 AM
@The Other Pete - The concept or the table talk?
Posted by: FreshMD | 03 April 2009 at 09:04 AM
It's a cool concept but not everyone could stomach it.
Posted by: JeanMac | 03 April 2009 at 09:40 AM
Okay, seriously, I could not eat there.
Posted by: Rosa | 03 April 2009 at 11:11 PM
OMG, can you even imagine it?! I won't even watch ER or Dr. G because I sooooo need a break from abscesses, hernias, death and dying. Ewwwww!!!
Posted by: casapinka | 12 April 2009 at 04:32 AM
ha ha, yes, I just walked past this place when I was in Singapore recently.
I took some great pics of some older men sitting in the wheelchairs/seats while dining... my friends were surprised when I showed them the pics and explained that these men were not actually wheelchair-users... it looked so convincing.
Also, like you showed in your last picture, the shots come in giant syringes which are places in big buckets on the table.
Apparently business is not that good at this place b/c Asian people think it's "bad luck" to eat at a hospital-themed place like this.
Posted by: corinna | 13 April 2009 at 10:33 PM