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* Like the ComicBook above, ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' does this with Rick at the beginning, though the first scene shows him getting shot during a traffic stop, to explain what put him in the hospital.

* The hospital NightmareSequence at the beginning of RobZombie's ''Film/{{Halloween}} II''.

* ''The Lost Tales from Camp Blood'' short included with the ''Film/FridayThe13th: The Final Chapter'' Deluxe Edition.

* Episode 3 of ''TheyHunger'' has the player waking up at a hospital after he went through a ZombieApocalypse; a sweet voice from offscreen says "Wake up, you [[AllJustADream had a nightmare]]!" Then the awakening [[DreamWithinADream turns out to be a dream]], and the player wakes up for real -- in a zombie-filled hospital.

* ''DeadSpace2'' has Isaac wake up in a hospital in the Sprawl that isn't ''quite'' abandoned, but only because it hasn't ''finished'' being overrun by necromorphs yet.

Abandoned hospitals are [[RuleOfScary creepy]], which sets the tone by itself, but the addition of specific types of SceneryGorn can ratchet that tension up even further. At the same time, it gives the characters (and the audience) a clue as to why the hospital was abandoned in the first place. Being in a ConvenientComa while the disaster was happening gives them an excuse to be LateToTheParty, making them a NaiveNewcomer until they figure things out. If they don't remember why they were in the hospital in the first place, then you've got an OntologicalMystery on your hands in addition to dealing with more immediate problems.

* The first ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movie uses this at the end; Alice wakes up in a Raccoon City hospital, with the ZombieApocalypse well underway outside. The same scene also comprises the beginning of the second movie, ''Resident Evil: Apocalypse''.

* Peter, Joe, Quagmire, and Brian wake up in an empty hospital (discovering the rest of the world is gone a little later)in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Forget-Me-Not".

Especially popular during a ZombieApocalypse, for some reason. See AbandonedHospital for the supertrope.

* ''TheWalkingDead'' opens with Rick being shot, then cuts to him awakening some time after the ZombieApocalypse has begun.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' does this with Rick at the beginning, though the first scene shows him getting shot during a traffic stop, to explain what put him in the hospital.

* John Wyndham's "The Day of the Triffids" opens with the protagonist waking up in hospital following eye surgery, his eyes still bandaged. This turns out to be just as well [[spoiler: since everyone else has gone blind from looking at weird lights in the sky, and now the population is being picked off by ambulatory, carnivorous plants]].

* John Wyndham's "The Day of the Triffids" opens with the protagonist waking up in hospital following eye surgery, his eyes still bandaged. This turns out to be just as well [[spoiler: since everyone else has gone blind from looking at weird lights in the sky, and are now the population is being picked off by ambulatory, carnivorous plants]].

* ''DeadSpace2'' has Isaac wake up in a hospital in the Sprawl that isn't ''quite'' abandoned, but only because it hasn't quite ''finished'' being overrun by necromorphs yet.

* AfraidOfMonsters: David becomes unconsious in a hospital bathroom after taking what appears to be a overdose of drugs. After a nightmare sequence, he wakes up in a empty hospital with only hallucinations around him.
* The opening of SilentHillHomecoming, though the hospital is not ''quite'' abandoned...
** Other protagonists of the SilentHill series also tend to find themselves involuntarily transported to the Dark World versions of a hospital at some point in the game.

* Episode 3 of ''Theyhunger'' has the player waking up at a hospital after he went through a ZombieApocalypse; a sweet voice from offscreen says [[AllJustADream "Wake up, you had a nightmare!"]] Then the awakening turns out to be a dream, and the player wakes up for real--in a zombie-filled hospital.

* ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'' has this, with the twist that we don't know it's supposed to be an hospital until late in the game.

* ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II'' starts with the player character in the medical ward of a space station that has only two other living beings aboard, one hibernating, the other forgotten.