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i．异域风情
1．bringing art into hospitals
the medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play an important role in helping patients to get better．
as part of nationwide effort in britain to bring art out of the museum and into public places，some of the country’s best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings．of the 2 500 national health service hospitals in britain，almost l00 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages，waiting areas and treatment rooms．
these recent movements first started by one artist，peter senior，who set up his studio at a manchester hospital in northeastern england during the early 1970s．he felt the artist had 1ost his place in modern society，and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience．
a common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5 000 visitors each week．what a better place to hold regular exhibition of art! senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the outpatients waiting area of the manchester royal hospital in 1975．believed to be britain’s first hospital artist, senior was so much in demand that a team of six young art school graduates soon joined him．
the effect is striking．now in the passages and waiting rooms，the visitor experierices a full view of fresh colors, playful images and restful courtyards．
the quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an i11ness．a study has shown that patients who had a view onto garden needed half the number of strong painkillers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at．
2．possible spread of sars at workplace
the respiratory(呼吸的) virus known as sars has appeared to spread in the united states only to family members of health workers with close contact(接触)to a sick person．
on thursday，the head of the centers for disease control and prevention said there might be a case of severe acute respiratory(呼吸)syndrome(症状)spreading through the workplace．
dr．julie gerberding said a suspected sars virus patient who became ill after traveling to asia might have infected a co—worker in florida，which made her “very worried ”．