When did hospitals get so noisy? Pehaps it is a myth that health centres were once oasis of calm, the very tranquility and absence of noise itself an agent of healing. If is it, it is a myth I grew up believing, so that today’s hospitals with their mix of braying nurses and orderlies, beeping and sirening machines, pa systems and the clamour of visitors and hangers on seems to be a counterproductive invasion into the halls of healing.
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