Sandbox / Hospital Paradiso Wick Check

Summary:

• (Mostly) Correct: 10/38 (26%)
• Misuse (misinterprets the trope title and thinks it's about a literal hospital): 17/38 (45%)
• Misuse (other): 4/38 (11%)
• ZCE 7/38 (18%)

(Mostly) Correct

• BlazBlue - Litchi Faye-Ling: She has explicitly said that once Arakune's saved, she will settle down in Orient Town and help people there instead of resuming her scientist career in Sector Seven. She fulfilled this at the ending of Central Fiction.
• Characters/ER: Family Versus Career: Leaves County and emergency medicine for what looks like a rather dull clinic job so that he can have better work hours and get custody of his son.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic - Republic Class / Jedi Knight: Gentleman Adventurer: Grew up on a wealthy, high-technology world, graduated with honors from the most prestigious medical school in the Core Worlds, and spends most of his time treating refugees, resistance fighters, and underworld bosses as an alternative to taking more comfortable, remunerative work and dying of boredom.
• Tropes A to I: It happens to Miss Brooks at least five times, three on the radio and twice on television:
  • In "Sunnydale Finishing School", Miss Brooks turned down a position at a private school and went to teach at Madison High School.
  • In "Clay City English Teacher", Miss Brooks turns down an attractive job offer from Jason Brille to continue teaching at Madison High School (in spite of not being able to stand Principal Osgood Conklin.
  • In "Connie's New Job Offer", Miss Brooks turns down a job that offers twice the pay she gets as a teacher.
  • In the television episode "Baseball Slide", Miss Brooks turns down a $500 bonus to sign with the Peoria White Sox Woman's Softball team. Miss Brooks warns Mr. Conklin, however, that if she is faced with continued unpleasantness she might just take up the offer.
  • "King and Brooks", another television episode, sees Miss Brooks turn down a position where she'd go to India and teach the son of the Maharajah of Bungatti. I'd prefer these have a more context explaining why she made her decisions, but otherwise these are correct.
• ERS 1 E 01 Twenty Four Hours: Mark is given the opportunity to join a private practice that has better pay and much less stress, but is unswayed by the job offer and elects to stay in his current role at County General.
• Any Day Now: The pilot finds Rene as a tremendously successful Washington, DC lawyer. Although not unhappy, she still decides to leave it and an unsatisfying relationship to return home and open a small practice.
• Providence: Sydney was a renowned plastic surgeon in LA, but she was clearly unfulfilled—one clip shows her outright rolling her eyes at a patient. She returns home to work in a humble family practice clinic with her best friend from college and medical school.
• Sisters: Charlie takes a job at a fancy private practice. True to form, the other doctors are only concerned with their golf game and ski/beach vacations. By the episodes end, she's so fed up that she quits to return to the free inner-city clinic where she got started.
• Six Feet Under: ubverted when Brenda chooses the easier way. In a moment of idealism, Brenda refuses her mother's offers for placement as psychologist in a high-class hospital and chooses to work in a public centre as councillor instead. The people working there are good people and they appreciate Brenda's presence because they're overworked and understaffed. But Brenda can't take the conditions and the cynicism permeating the place and leaves after a day, returning to her mother for the cushy job.
• Trauma Center (Atlus): Inverted in Under the Knife. Joining the cutting-edge medical facility Caduceus is considered to be the selfless choice for Dr. Stiles, while staying at Hope Hospital would be more in the interest of his own happiness. Played straight in Under the Knife 2, in which Dr. Stiles declines a high-paying desk job at Acropolis Pharmaceutical in favor of continuing as a surgeon at Caduceus.

Misuse (misinterprets the trope title and thinks it's about a literal hospital)

• Auto Doc: The final level of Hitman (2016) takes place in a Hospital Paradiso built with a sophisticated AI that can use a high-tech robotic surgical suite to aid in delicate medical procedures. One of your targets is set to be operated on by said robotic suite, which can be used to dispatch the target, either by injecting corrupted stem cells, draining their blood, electrocuting them with an overcharged defibrillator, or sabotaging the AI and letting it do the deed.
• Battle Harem: This is the endgame Consensus is after for Taylor Hebert for the first iteration of Communication, to the point of that it becomes a Running Gag throughout the quest. To her complete dumbfoundment, they actually succeed! By the time of the epilogue, it consists of Deadpan Snarker with Bat Deduction, a Biomanipulator with former Heroic Fatigue, a Benevolent A.I., a former patient of Hospital Paradiso, the resident Action Fashionista, an archer, and a Humanoid Abomination from space. The group expands in the sequel.
• Bedlam House: Poor Alice. She's lost her grip on sanity. She's stark raving mad. What she needs to get well is a sleek modern psychiatric facility with freshly washed sheets, bright, cheery paint, kind nurses, and friendly doctors.
• Competence Porn: The chief draw of Miami Medical is watching half a dozen or so very attractive, extremely brilliant trauma surgeons and their hypercompetent charge nurse be absolutely superb at their jobs in a Hospital Paradiso.
• Frontier Doctor: Simon Tam of Firefly is a Frontier Doctor in space, down to having once worked in a Hospital Paradiso on a Core World and being driven to the Frontier by a conflict with the law. A couple of episodes show more traditional versions (traditional, that is, apart from being on alien planets 500 years in the future).
• Mood-Swinger: In the Brainbent canon Sollux has rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, with accompanying psychotic episodes. It's so bad that after one incident where he didn't take his medication he had to be sent to St. Lobaf for treatment.
• Plot-Inciting Infidelity: Already disillusioned with her glitzy plastic surgery practice in Los Angeles, Dr. Sydney Hansen decides to return to her family in Providence after walking in on her boyfriend in the shower with another man.
• Standard Office Setting: Hospital Paradiso offers an even sleeker-looking workplace than is Standard Office Setting
• Batman: Rogues Gallery (Part 2): Sentenced to prison for creative accounting practices, financier Warren White tried to slip through the cracks by pleading insanity, in the hopes of being committed to a modern psychiatric care facility.
• Werner: Bedlam House: "Zur fröhlichen Drehtür" (Was soll der Quatsch?) gives this trope a modern spin. The titular institution outwardly looks like and is marketed as a ginormous Hospital Paradiso for curing mental illnesses.
• Heavy Trip: Bedlam House: Averted. The psychiatric hospital in which Turo works in isn't a Hospital Paradiso either, but at least the inmates seem to be treated nicely.
• Firefly E09 Ariel": St. Lucy's, which provides Mei-Mei the latest medical technology overseen by best medical practitioner on the Most Wanted List. With little paperwork necessary.
• APH Tomorrow Never Dies: Subverted with the Room of Rest; it's a generic hospital ward within the SIS building, but since the Agents have such crappy apartments, they sometimes choose to sleep there instead.
• Charite: Charité is to be presented that way when the new emperor, young Wilhelm II, comes for a visit; everything is to be cleaned up, the severely ill patients are to be kept out of sight, and those who have to be shown get a generous portion of opium so they don't moan with pain. Professor Virchow is disgusted as he'd rather have the emperor see the bad state the hospital is in so he can get him to agree to better fundings for them and to a general improvement of the health care system.
• Monday Mornings: Inverted because Chelsea General in Oregon is a Hospital Paradiso — a very fancy hospital, frequently referred to as one of the top in the world. All the doctors are absolutely stellar with deservedly developed God complex. However, their boss is not understanding when they mess up, and they are often called out on their screw-ups, even if they are but relatively minor mistakes. Two doctors get sacked in season 1. One is apparently incompetent, while the other is as awesome as the rest, but his team let him down and he killed a patient during a routine procedure. This doesn't really understand what the trope is, it's not an "inverted" example.
• Hitman 2: The mission takes place at GAMA, one of the most cutting-edge hospitals on Earth. Since it caters to a very wealthy clientele, it looks like a cross between a sci-fi hospital (with an AI overseer) and a Japanese resort (complete with zen garden, hot spring and sushi bar). Dmitri is hanging around the garden and sushi bar for the most part.
• Hitman (2016): GAMA is one of the most cutting-edge hospitals on Earth. Since it caters to a very wealthy clientele, it looks like a cross between a sci-fi hospital (with an AI overseer) and a Japanese resort (complete with a zen garden, hot spring, and sushi bar).

Misuse (other)

• The Last King of Scotland: Nicholas decides to go to Africa to practice medicine because he doesn't want to spend his days treating run-of-the-mill problems in a dull clinic in Scotland. This reads as the opposite of what the trope description implies the trope to be about.
• Sector General: Thoroughly averted. In spite of having top notch equipment and comfort provisions on par with luxury hotels, Sector General routinely has to deal with sickest patients in the galaxy and nightmarish emergency scenarios. This is the entire reason for it existence; people come there precisely because a patient won't dare die once it arrives on account of all the high-powered talent devoted to its care. A physician or surgeon who can survive a residency at Sector General can pretty much take its pick of attending positions throughout the galaxy. Listing an aversion.
• ER: A mixed bag:
  • Mark in the Pilot, to the letter. ZCE.
  • Averted with Benton. Not only does Benton pursue work in such a place, he takes it. This was because he needed to be around to take care of Reese and Romano wouldn't/couldn't offer him the hours he needed at County. Listing aversion.
  • Also at the beginning of "Hell and High Water". Having been fired from the hospital in the previous episode, Doug is seen interviewing at one of these. Despite the higher pay and better hours, he's clearly not happy about it, and his heroics in the episode prompt the hospital to rehire him. Correct.
  • Despite working in an inner-city emergency room, Carter seems to think he's playing this trope out, writing a huge check to benefit a grungy clinic^note Unfortunately, the guy supposedly running it is a scam artist, and ultimately going to work in Africa. Needs more context on what is the preferred choice here.
  • Pratt spends all of Season 9 eagerly anticipating matching into a residency program in a more prestigious hospital. He does. . . and on what's to be his last day at County, decides to stay. Needs more context for why.
• RoboCop: The Series: In one episode, a doctor lost her job at a prestigious hospital and had to work in the slums due to her low success rate. It turns out that her former coworkers kept their rate up by deliberately denying service to patients they couldn't guarantee an easy recovery, whereas she tried to help everyone she could, hoping to at least save a few lives. Not only does she start at the higher-quality institute, it doesn't say if she stayed at her lower-quality hospital or not.

ZCE

• Better Call Saul: Los Pollos Hermanos: Gus sets one up for her so he can push her to go back to it instead of continuing to treat Hector.
• Tropes E to M: The Mane Six's Ministries all had a purpose in the war effort and had influence over Equestria's culture - Twilight Sparkle's Ministry of Arcane Sciences, Applejack's Ministry of Wartime Technology, Rarity's Ministry of Image, Fluttershy's Ministry of Peace, Pinkie Pie's Ministry of Morale, and Rainbow Dash's Ministry of Awesome. The implied use of this as a particular type of institution still reads like misuse in any context.
• Star Trek Voyager S 7 E 5 Critical Care: Level Blue. The Doctor rejects it in favor of Level Red, where he feels he's more needed. This almost reads like the correct use, but no context to indicate what Level Blue or Red actually are, and the wording here implies that the trope is itself about a type of hospital.
• Bramwell: Particularly the episode involving O'Neill and the pregnant child prostitute. What a wild thing to say without any context, haha
• Doogie Howser, M.D.: Doogie turns down a gilded offer to work at a pediatric clinic on the grounds that he can do more good at the hospital. Technically correct, but needs more context.
• House: Commented-out ZCE.
• Third Watch: Nothing here.