Dalrymple writes at Pajamas Media on a phenomenon reported in the New England Journal of Medicine: that a surprising number of hospital patients develop new conditions from their hospital stay. Possible causes? Sleep deprivation, poor nutrition and bewilderment.
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It would appear that the good Doctor has forgotten what he had written in a previous paragraph when referring to the elderly and nutrition – that sleep deprivation also affects appetite along with being unwell in general.