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WHEN I WAS ten years old, my friend Dougy and I used to talk in the cafeteria lunch line about the TV shows we watched each night. TV was the only reason we were friends. He would come over to my house on weekends, and we would watch a horror movie on the GE television my great-grandmother had given me when I was eight. Once, when the channel selector knob on my parents' TV broke off, I used a pair of pliers to turn the rod around, proudly telling my folks what network they were watching as I recognized...
...Cope. In an economy move similar to the airlines' no-frills flights, more and more hospitals are offering no-frills care for patients who are sufficiently well to help themselves. The patients are asked to make their own beds, keep their rooms tidy, take meals in the cafeteria rather than wait for them at bedside, even pick up their own medications. The tactic not only keeps down costs-a saving that most hospitals pass directly on to the patient -but can also be an important part of therapy. For example, at St. Mary's in Rochester, Minn...
...more time to give patients counseling and other services that help the patient's wellbeing. Says the unit's director, Dr. Robert Johnson, a cancer specialist: "Patients are strangers when they come in. But then they meet, become friends and do things, like eating together in the cafeteria." They are also freed from the usual military-like hospital restrictions and can even wear street clothes. Such relaxation of rules gives patients an enormous psychological boost. "They don't have the same sense of being sick that other patients have," says Johnson...
...Center are cold and darkened. The security guard, reading at his desk, is interrupted by a hand-holding couple searching for a bathroom. There is a light on in the director's office where a man sits with his coat on, tapping away at a computer terminal. In the cafeteria a radio speaker has been playing classical music all night to an empty room. At midnight the music yields to a recording of two comedians performing live. They're telling jokes and singing folk songs in a thick Yiddish accent. Applause and laughter echo from the radio into the darkness...
...epilogue, Scorsese achieves a near-perfect identification between his hero and his audience; like Travis, we have been aching for this release, and now that it has been granted, we're left cold, drained, and a bit removed from ourselves--like the denizens who haunt the all-night Bellmore Cafeteria...