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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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Hands-on healthcare

A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.

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Lying low for lockdown and beyond

For Liz Carr the chances of catching Covid-19 are the same as for anyone else, but as a Disabled person she's at much greater risk of not getting the treatment she needs if she falls ill.

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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels

In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.

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  • Natural appearance before the onset of exophthalmic goitre
  • Man with a melanotic wart on the side of his nose
  • Face of a man with necrosis of the lower jaw with sloughing phagedaena
  • Youth with coxa vara of the left side
  • Youth with coxa vara of the left side
  • The British Lying-in Hospital, Holborn: the facade and an allegorical scene of charity. Engraving by J.S. Miller after himself.
  • Sassoon General Hospital, Poona, India: a queue of patients awaiting treatment. Wood engraving by C. Roberts after W. Simpson.
  • Sassoon General Hospital, Poona, India: a queue of patients awaiting treatment. Wood engraving by C. Roberts after W. Simpson.
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