Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital

This guide to the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital walks through a building designed entirely around a patient that cannot say where it hurts and cannot share a room with another of its kind. It covers the hospital's boutique-hotel layout of climate-controlled private rooms, its surgical suites and isolation wing since opening in 1999, and the unusual bureaucratic role it has taken on for a bird that can be worth tens of thousands of dollars. Listen for the corridor of hooded birds waiting their turn on padded perches.