Trivia / Theme Hospital

• Dummied Out: One of the diseases was supposed to be "Pregnancy". The manual describes it as being caused by "Power-cuts in urban areas", and displays symptoms of "Faddish eating with consequent beer gut". An unofficial patch hacked it back into the game.
• Game-Breaking Bug: Doctors and patients alike can sometimes get stuck in one corner of the hospital and can't be moved. This can happen for no rhyme or reason, but almost certainly because the pathways are too cramped. Sometimes this gets worse with the game glitching out showing garbage around the stuck doctor or patient. Once that happens, you can expect a crash to happen very soon.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The developers were working on other time periods for the game, allowing the player to run a hospital in the medieval times, the Victorian age, and even the future. Due to lack of development time however, they were only able to finish one time period, the present.
  • A couple of diseases, such as "Animal Magnetism" (the patient would be covered in several small animals) and "Saturday Night Fever" (the patient would be wearing a white suit and black shirt and cause the floor titles to light up in crazy colors when stepping on them), were also planned but never included in the final game. These would later see use in Two Point Hospital.