Clinical privacy can be lost before anyone enters a consulting room—through a called name, an exposed queue, an overheard conversation or a visible route to a particular department
Registration, waiting, call points and treatment access should be coordinated with sightlines, acoustics and wayfinding
Excessive enclosure can create confusion that forces people to reveal more information just to proceed.
The design consequence lies in legible arrival, privacy gradients, vertical separation, acoustics, waiting and thresholds that reduce unnecessary exposure.
Privacy begins at arrival because dignity begins before the consultation.
