Endpiece: Insult to cabbages
| Autor: | Carey Pj |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | BMJ. 318:925-925 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.318.7188.925a |
| Popis: | Among the current cliches I especially deplore is the one which refers to hospital patients kept alive by machines as “cabbages.” This is both inaccurate and insulting to vegetables. For a cabbage is a sturdy, self-reliant being, and compared with an average specimen of twentieth-century manhood it has, when well grown, a positively athletic air. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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