In a Japanese Hospital
MY strangest hospital experience was when I spent some weeks in a Japanese hospital in Osaka. I was the only foreigner in the building for the first two weeks and nobody could speak a word of English to me, and I couldn’t speak a word of Japanese to them. It was quite a business making my wants
understood, especially in the mattet of food, The Japanese nurses who looked after me invariably greeted me with a giggle, and all I could do was to reply with another giggle. At last I conceived the idea of describing my wants in the way of food by drawing a picture of what I wanted. I never was a good drawer at the best of times, and
as far as I could see the only article of food they recognised was an egg, and so my diet consisted of egg morning, noon and night. I went so far as to try and draw a fish once, but it was no good. I had asked for egg in the first place and egg it was to be until I was discharged. Since then I have hardly had the courage to look an egg in the face again. — (" Just on Being a Patient," Major F. H. Lampen, 2YA, June 5.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 107, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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218In a Japanese Hospital New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 107, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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