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Narrative Matters

Making A Public Hospital Work

When I was a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1960s, I went to examine an intensive care patient at Philadelphia General Hospital and found him dead in bed. No one seemed to know he had died. Another patient lay in an empty room, using a device to suction intestinal secretions from a gaping abdominal wound that had never closed. He had been there for months, and no one seemed to know what his future held. The drafty old buildings housed the infamous neurology service, where some patients had lived most of their lives, and the prison . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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