Just like how sailors have a taboo against saying the word "sink" and you're not supposed to flip a fish over while eating it, hospitals—places people don't want to go but have to—also have their own taboos.
In a hospital, the foremost taboo is "death," which translates into the number "4."
That's why some hospital inpatient buildings don't have a fourth or fourteenth floor.
And in each ward, beds are not numbered "Bed 4," "Bed 14," "Bed 24," and so on, all to accommodate the superstitious psychology of patients and their families.
However, the Affiliated Hospital's inpatient building did have a fourth and a fourteenth floor, and they didn't deliberately avoid the number 4 for their bed numbers, either.
This was because the Affiliated Hospital had enough confidence to back it up.
Countless patients were lined up waiting for a bed. Take it or leave it!
