Where is the Spirit?

Martin Pennock lies in his hospital bed wondering

Never having spent more than a day in a hospital it came as a shock to the system to be wheeled into Critical Care at West Suffolk Hospital and then transferred to Papworth Hospital for heart surgery. For nigh on five weeks I had to lie at the tender mercy of health professionals, learning a great deal about the ways of the heart and wondering what place the spirit has in this clinical environment.

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