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Hospital view and Bacillus
  1. David Bann
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    Dr David Bann, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK; david.bann@ucl.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2015-010765

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    Hospital view

    Your health perched like a bird's nest

    Outside the scratched hospital window

    And our frail bodies

    Lifted by robotic arms

    Augmented with oxygen masks and intravenous drips.

    Beds point each vacant …

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    • Competing interests None.

    • Funding DB is ESRC funded.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.