#gracenichols

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by Grace Nichols

In the Medical Center of Houston, Texas is one of the world's best hospitals: M.D. Anderson. Every patient is always attended to by the world's best nurses, given the world's best procedures by the world's best doctors, and given the world's best medicine. Prior to a patient's appointment, M.D. Anderson provides a folder complete with preparations that need to be made before the appointments, what to expect during procedures, and dealings of recovery, tailored for the particular patient. The only thing the folder doesn't tell you is that M.D. Anderson is designed to age those who aren't patients. When I walked in this place I was fifteen years old, I've been here two days and I suspect that when I walk out I will be a thousand. M.D Anderson is a place where suspense hangs so heavily in the air that it is impossible for those without oxygen masks to even begin to breathe. The world's best hospital is equipped with the world's slowest clocks, the world's slowest procedures, and the world's slowest results. Just as every patient is given a folder of information, every visitor is shackled to the numbers of the clock where the hands of time strangle their youth. M.D. Anderson is the world's best hospital, where the dying go to live and the living go to age.