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Trust me, I’m a patient

Artist Rachel Rowan Olive is an expert in the way her mental health condition affects her. Here she explains how it helps if doctors understand that.

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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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How the mental health system fails Black people

Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.

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The solidarity of sickness

Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.

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  • A physician and nurse attending a sick patient (?) and her servant. Watercolour.
  • The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: two nurses and a patient [?] in front of a guarded fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.
  • Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hampshire: six scenes of nurses, nurse and patient, patients, hospital wards, treatment and physicians. Process print.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: bearded patient and nurse on Pitcairn ward. Photograph, c.1908.
  • World War One: a bandaged patient with a doctor and nurse. Photograph, ca. 1919.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: bearded patient and nurse on Pitcairn ward. Photograph, c.1908.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • A nurse and a smallpox patient in an isolation hospital, possibly at Ilford, Essex. Three photographs.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Elsie Clutterbuck (right), a smallpox patient, with another patient (a boy) and a nurse. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
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