In an old operating room, with its white-tiled walls and porcelain scrub sinks, a robin's tiny blue egg sits in the middle of the floor.
They emerged into a somber corridor of white-tiled walls and white lights, and followed it to a large metal door.
Stucke's blue-white corpse was leaning back in the corner of the deep tub, his head lolled against the white-tiled walls.
The decor is strictly utilitarian: white-tiled walls lined with benches and family-style tables.
"Not good," she admitted, as they settled on stools at a scarred wooden table set against the white-tiled wall.
The naked Americans took their places under many showerheads along a white-tiled wall.
In the next room were the open showers and, lower down on the white-tiled wall, two sets of faucets for washing.
Weatherton's eyes were glazed, the color of his skin nearly matching the stark pallor of the white-tiled wall behind him.
The autopsy room had white-tiled walls and a central metal table with guttering around its edges to channel off the blood.
The room was very quiet this early in the morning, and every sound he made echoed from the white-tiled walls.