When it's time, nothing can defeat that
Hospital. This is a place where no-one can ignore reality, where life presents itself as a vision of all that is monstrous, unfair and inhuman. Well, some people think that. Once a hospital was to medicine as the cathedral to religion and the palace to monarchy. It is the heart of the enterprise, the site where medicine was practiced at its most advanced, specialized, innovative, complex and costly. In the developed world, I mean nowadays, hospitals claim the lion's share of the medical budget. Which to me, is a good thing. I've always seen a hospital as a place where a hush hangs over the endless corridors and swinging doors. The rooms where night and day are an irrelevance. Artificial low light maintains a clinical 24-hour world. Beds, patients swathed in tubes, oxygen masks, wires. Machines whirring, clicking, beeping. There was one time, I visited my auntie in the hospital where beside my auntie laying a girl, and which I got cognizant of ...