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Doctors at times seemed brusque and even hostile toward us. The lighting was harsh, the food terrible, the rooms loud and devoid of comfort. Weren’t people there to heal? This did not appear to matter. What mattered was the whole bureaucratic apparatus of “care”: the beeping monitors and hourly check-ins and forced wakings, the elaborate (and frequently futile) interventions painstakingly performed on the terminally ill.
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
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