Soundings
Soundings
Anyone for tennis?
BMJ 2001; 323 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.323.7312.581/a (Published 08 September 2001) Cite this as: BMJ 2001;323:581
- Colin Douglas, doctor and novelist
- Edinburgh
Or would you prefer parking? Yes, I think I have a sense of the meeting. No need to go to a vote. Clearly you will be happy to go along with our administrators' plans for the once popular but now somewhat dilapidated tennis courts beyond the former nurses' home …
It must have happened a lot over the decades, all over the NHS. Hospital tennis—a pastime easily compatible with the kind of on-call schedules that persisted into the early 1970s—is now …
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