"They'd put a big red plastic bag over the entire door, and all his food trays were on the floor outside. And then the nurses started drawing straws to choose who would have to go in there and check on him.” On Zoom, Ruth Coker Burks is reliving the moment in 1984 when, while visiting a friend in hospital in her home town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, she noticed that all the hospital staff were avoiding the young male patient in a nearby room like the plague. “I thought, ‘This isn’t right.’ So I snuck into the room and went to the bedside and took his hand. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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