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Hospital Streets

Have you noticed the latest trend?
All the corridors in hospitals have street names now.
Suggestion 1: The NHS to be awarded a grant to paint the walls with
the odd terraced house
Cheered by a window box planted with geraniums.
I have trekked miles down these streets, or - to be accurate (one
learns the power of accuracy through filling in endless DWP forms)-I
have been pushed for miles between the dirty lemon walls.
Suggestion 2 : seeing as we are now a ‘patient centred’ NHS, the
creation of a fragmentation terminal.
It would be so much easier to send the heart and lungs down one
street, the brain down another and all the various limbs that tremble
and hurt down the side roads.
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