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IN DEFAULT OF MEDICAL TREATMENT, THE APOLLO HOSPITAL RECOMMENDS A CARD GAME — A BID FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, PERCHANCE, OR HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION THERAPY?... Since Virraj Sorhvi received virtually no treatment for his chronic MRSA-caused tibial osteomyelitis during the 7 months and 11 days he wasted at New Delhi's Apollo Hospital, he observes with interest how other patients faced with the same want of healing care take matters into their own hands and administer baccarat therapy to themselves. Alas, Virraj couldn't join in, having himself never been instructed in the intricacies of any card game. And so watching from the distance of his own sickbed as medicine was being supplanted by wizardry was all that was left to do.

N.B. Watch the companion piece to this video, portraying the patients' other diversions, on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZVnP2VRHlU


♦ Virraj has been hospitalized continuously since 4 July 2005; he had undergone treatment at this particular institution (mostly by self-medication with bubble gum, it would seem) between 17 October 2007 and 28 May 2008. For the latest info, visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/virraj

♦ video location: Bed № 4112, Wing A, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar, Delhi-Mathura Road (National Highway № 2), New Delhi, India
♦ video date: Friday, 18 April 2008 (22:46:00 & 23:07:44 IST | 17:16:00 & 17:37:44 GMT) — 1020th day of Virraj's hospitalization overall (185th day at Apollo)

♥♥♥Greetings to the viewers of my video in Florida, Massachusetts, Washington, Algeria, Greece, Thailand, and other parts of the world!♥♥♥

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