I know this is a fact because I was in hospital for seven days and I didn't get any rest. A nurse came in my room every 3 hours to get blood.
News, Grand Central Terminal may be synonymous with noise and haste. But as I recently discovered, it can be a lot quieter than a hospital bed.
On the busiest day at Grand Central, I might visit the bakery and newsstand, buy a train ticket, drop into the bookstore and drugstore before picking up some flowers and maybe buy a coffee for the ride home. That’s about seven transactions, all brief, that I choose to initiate when I have time and energy.
Contrast this with my recent stay in a 235-bed suburban nonprofit hospital where I faced at least 34 separate interactions, most of them convenient for everyone but the patient.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/he...AKfm53Mo+r8DXw