Tonight I visited a friend in hospital, and had a bit of a shock. My friend was doing very well, all things considered. But there was no security check. No one wanted to see my ID, no one wanted to know where I was going or what I would be doing. I didn't have to come up with the name or room number of the person I was visiting. No one questioned my wandering about the hallways unescorted and unsupervised.
Of course, the "security" we encounter daily throughout NYC doesn't do much to screen out dangerous folks. At most, it might screen out loonies who are too far gone to come up with a plausible story and a piece of identification.
But surely at a hospital where there are many vulnerable patients, you'd at least want to guard against openly deranged lunatics and people who are visibly unsanitary?
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