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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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How hospital care fails disabled bodies

Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.

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Medics, migration and the NHS

In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.

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From chef’s whites to medical scrubs

Meet the machinists who have rapidly switched from making clothing for hospitality staff to uniforms for hospital workers.

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  • Royal Portsmouth Hospital: Connaught Ward, with men patients, members of the medical staff, and nurses. Photograph, 1902.
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: list of students and staff at the hospital, ca. 1921.
  • Russo-Japanese War: a field hospital with medical staff and four tents. Collotype, 1904.
  • First World War wounded soldiers, two lying in hospital beds, with medical staff. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Medical staff receiving training on a hospital ship during the Xhosa Wars, Africa. Wood engraving.
  • Royal Portsmouth Hospital: children's ward, with patients, nurses and members of the medical staff. Photograph, 1902.
  • Medical and surgical staff of St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, London. Autotype by Barraud & Jerrard, ca. 1880.
  • Royal Portsmouth Hospital: Victoria Ward, with women patients, members of the medical staff and nurses. Photograph, 1902.
  • A hospital ward showing sick patients being tended to by medical staff, after a quote from the Bible (Matt. 25.36). Line engraving by C. Galle.
  • Bethlem Hospital, London: the incurables being inspected by a member of the medical staff, with the patients represented by political figures. Drawing by Thomas Rowlandson, 1789.
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