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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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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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Pain and the power of touch

As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.

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  • Papworth. The Bernhard Baron Hospital for Men and one wing of the South Park Hostel for Rehabilitation where trainee-patients are accomodated in single private rooms.
  • Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, London: the out-patient waiting room. Photograph, 1912.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a surgical treatment room in the out-patients' department. Photograph, 1921.
  • The German Hospital, Dalston: patients waiting in the waiting room. Photograph by Marshall, Keene & Co.
  • The German Hospital, Dalston: a room for two patients, probably in the new wing (1936). Photograph.
  • A gouty patient in his room full of unproductive doctors. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • The Royal Hospital, Haslar, England: the massage room: a nurse massages a patient's arm. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Dax, France: a male patient in the shower room of a thermal establishment. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.
  • The German Hospital, Dalston: a room for a single patient, probably in the new wing (1936). Photograph.
  • Dax, France: a female patient in the shower room of a thermal establishment. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.
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