Best medical care: Dallas or Houston? (Plano, Frisco: to live, restaurants, shop)

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by TexasTallest

lol how is this even a comparison? just like the better skyline thread.. i dont understand how some Dallas posters could even try to defend their city in these arguments.

It's pretty easy.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

What does height have to do with size? New? Baylor has had a high-rise hospital building since the 80s. We could have easily made the New Parkland bigger vertically since it's almost 3 million sq ft.

Baylor Dallas would be dwarfed in the TMC. It only stands out in Dallas because its all alone away from everything. Same with Methodist.

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt;30061824[B

]Baylor Dallas would be dwarfed in the TMC.[/b] It only stands out in Dallas because its all alone away from everything. Same with Methodist.

Height, yes Campus size, no.

[Dallaz]

If many cities around the USA decided to put a lot of their hospitals in one district, TMC wouldn't be the largest.

[hellpaso]

[TheOverdog]

This has to be one of the craziest threads ever.

[casimpso]

Originally Posted by TheOverdog

This has to be one of the craziest threads ever.

True. It's yet another example of HTown's "all eggs in one basket" mantra/chant. All the hospitals are in one area. If you live 30-40 miles away, you're out of luck. Get in the car and drive. Most of the good restaurants, shopping, and clubs are concentrated in one area, within a tiny loop. If you don't live in the vaunted loop, you're out of luck. Hop in the car and get on the road. Good luck getting a parking spot! Even the museums are concentrated in one district. Again, hop in the car and drive if you aren't lucky enough to live inside the loop.

Everything is geared around one place--the suburbs, for the most part, are bedroom communities, with nowhere near the amenities of the main city.

And if a powerful hurricane comes along, the entire medical district is paralyzed with flooding, ruining years of research work, computer equipment, records and tissue samples. Thousands of lab animals perish. Hundreds of patients have to be evacuated. Frankly I don't see the advantage of having everything in one place.

1,000-Year Flood Paralyzes Texas Medical Center | Contractor content from Electrical Construction & Maintenance (EC&M) Magazine

And these so-called "100-year-" and "1,000-year-storms" seem to be coming along a lot more often than every 100 and 1,000 years.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by casimpso

True. It's yet another example of HTown's "all eggs in one basket" mantra/chant. All the hospitals are in one area. If you live 30-40 miles away, you're out of luck. Get in the car and drive. Most of the good restaurants, shopping, and clubs are concentrated in one area, within a tiny loop. If you don't live in the vaunted loop, you're out of luck. Hop in the car and get on the road. Good luck getting a parking spot! Even the museums are concentrated in one district. Again, hop in the car and drive if you aren't lucky enough to live inside the loop.

Everything is geared around one place--the suburbs, for the most part, are bedroom communities, with nowhere near the amenities of the main city.

And if a powerful hurricane comes along, the entire medical district is paralyzed with flooding, ruining years of research work, computer equipment, records and tissue samples. Thousands of lab animals perish. Hundreds of patients have to be evacuated. Frankly I don't see the advantage of having everything in one place.

1,000-Year Flood Paralyzes Texas Medical Center | Contractor content from Electrical Construction & Maintenance (EC&M) Magazine

And these so-called "100-year-" and "1,000-year-storms" seem to be coming along a lot more often than every 100 and 1,000 years.

You've lost it man, seriously. There is at least one major hospital in everyone of Houston's suburbs. Dallasites have been conditioned over the years to believe all of Houston's medical jobs are in the TMC which couldn't be any further from the truth. That said, a 5, 10, 15 minute drive to the hospital would be considered average in any part of the Houston metro.

Memorial Hermann Locations

http://www.stlukestexas.com/Locations/index.cfm

http://www.methodisthealth.com/ourHo...s.cfm?id=36837

Judging by this list, Southeast Texas has more hospitals than North Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Texas

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

You've lost it man, seriously. There is at least one major hospital in everyone of Houston's suburbs. Dallasites have been conditioned over the years to believe all of Houston's medical jobs are in the TMC which couldn't be any further from the truth. That said, a 5, 10, 15 minute drive to the hospital would be considered average in any part of the Houston metro.

Memorial Hermann Locations

St. Luke's Episcopal Health System | Locations | Find a Location

The Methodist Hospital System

Judging by this list, Southeast Texas has more hospitals than North Texas.

List of hospitals in Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm sure a lot of those hospitals doesn't have a high capacity, because I don't see why that many hospitals are needed. In Dallas we may not have a lot of hospitals but we do have large ones with a high capacity. (Baylor having the highest capacity at over 1,000 beds)

[dallasboi]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

You've lost it man, seriously. There is at least one major hospital in everyone of Houston's suburbs. Dallasites have been conditioned over the years to believe all of Houston's medical jobs are in the TMC which couldn't be any further from the truth. That said, a 5, 10, 15 minute drive to the hospital would be considered average in any part of the Houston metro.

Memorial Hermann Locations

St. Luke's Episcopal Health System | Locations | Find a Location

The Methodist Hospital System

Judging by this list, Southeast Texas has more hospitals than North Texas.

List of hospitals in Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is true.