The Hospital is a Factory by @dznz
> it is not always unpleasant to be an object in a factory. When one feels tended by capable, effective practitioners, there is a pleasure to letting go, to getting whisked along the conveyor belt and smoothly handled...
> This pleasure breaks down in the liminal waiting spaces, when one has an interminable time to sit and think, when one is acutely conscious of being an item in a buffer..
https://buttondown.com/dznz/archive/the-hospital-is-a-factory/