Apart from being born in a hospital I've never actually been admitted as a patient.  I do come to work in this hospital 5 days a week but standing in the 'Admissions' line was a totally new experience .  I do now have a new appreciation of what patients have to go through filling out the paperwork, answering questions and signing different bits of paperwork.  After all of that was done and I was officially admitted a lovely volunteer appeared to help us find the ward.