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 | | The hospital ward as the arena for uncovering the metaphorical, non-medical sicknesses of institutions, of individuals and of roles in society is, of course, one to which Potter returns notably in Moonlight on the Highway, in The Singing Detective and, ultimately, in Karaoke. |
 | | The hospital ward is the arena into which people are thrown only by virtue of their common status as patients ('sufferers') or as those who treat patients. |
 | | In the general ward, social differences are not taken into account when allocating patients to beds and, as a result, these very differences tend to surface all the more patently. |
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