Hello, I'm Dr. Wangjin Lee, Director of Boost Clinic Cheongdam.
This is the first entry in a journal I'm keeping as we build our clinic in Cheongdam, Seoul — a record of what an empty space looked like on day one, and the thinking behind the kind of clinic we want it to become.
An empty room, and a plan
Every week I've been walking through the construction site. The first time I stood in it, there was nothing but bare concrete. To anyone else, it probably looked like an ordinary construction site. To me, picturing what it would become, it was already exciting.
Since then, the work that doesn't show up in a before-and-after photo has been happening: heating and cooling lines run through the walls, drywall framed, electrical wiring routed. Woodwork for the lighting, the front desk layout, and the floor tiling have followed. Piece by piece, it's starting to look like a clinic.
The details no one will notice — and that's the point
When I plan a clinic layout, I spend more time on the small details than the big picture. I redrew the path from the consultation room to the recovery room more times than I can count, simply to make sure a treatment room door opening unexpectedly would never expose a patient lying on the bed to the corridor outside.
I calculated the position of the sink and the private walking route inside the recovery room just as carefully, so no patient would ever have to walk back through a shared hallway looking less than put-together after a treatment.
These might look like trivial choices in a floor plan. But I consider the sense of ease a patient feels from the moment they walk in to the moment they leave to be part of what makes a visit here complete.
Looking at a space that still has so much left to finish, I find myself picturing the people we'll meet here — and building, one evidence-based decision at a time, with them in mind.
I'll keep this journal honest as Boost Clinic Cheongdam comes together.
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