Abstract
Among the vacation packages available to tourists there is one that includes a six weeks' stay at a public hospital in Italy. A prerequisite for joining is severe jaundice from hepatitis A combined with the supreme confidence and unbounded insouciance of youth. This tour I took in 1959, soon after my internship. By the time I reached Milan I was ready for an educational experience at the other end of the needle in a large noisy medical ward. Here patients were being admitted at all hours and old men shuffled about all night with their parrot shaped “papagallo” urinals. In the next bed a man still confined to bed several weeks after a myocardial infarction was attached to a huge oxygen …
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