Hospitalization. This was one of the most recent projects of the General Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón. The Nuclear Medicine Service has humanized its residencies Through the work of artist Rafael Diaz, who is also a medical professional. The goal is to improve the environment in which patients stay during their diagnostic tests and radio-metabolism treatments, which, by their nature, can sometimes be longer.
This project is also aimed at professionals working in nuclear medicine, allowing for more accessible and open spaces that favor patient care. Maranion Nuclear Medicine is a unit with more than 65 years of history and currently covering all examinations, diagnostic methods and treatments. The service also provides coverage for many hospitals, specialist centers and primary care centers in the Community of Madrid.
The color and light of Rafael Díaz’s work accompanies users of the Nuclear Medicine Service at Gregorio Marañón Hospital in all the rooms they pass through and during their stay there. Already in the lobby itself, you can see a work created from the various diagnostic tests that were performed there, forming a structure of concentric designs that remind us Rose window of a cathedral or mandala.
Likewise, within the room in which diagnostic tests are conducted, elements of the periodic table that intervene in nuclear medicine appear through colors and shapes, giving scientific meaning to that universal chromatic language. Patients see only color, but for scientists they are substances that represent atomic numbers, electrons and chemical properties.
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