Distances inside a campus are real distances
Fiona Stanley Hospital at Murdoch carries 783 beds and includes the State Rehabilitation Service and the State Burns Service across a site you would not want to cross twice. The Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre in Nedlands is three institutions sharing one address: Sir Charles Gairdner, Perth Children's Hospital and the Harry Perkins Institute, with outpatient clinics scattered across several buildings.
Being set down at the main entrance when your clinic is at the far end of the campus can add several hundred metres each way. If you're in pain, fatigued, or self-propelling a manual chair, that isn't a minor inconvenience. It's the difference between arriving composed and arriving wrecked.
