The art of Kevin Blythe Sampson

THE ART OF
KEVIN BLYTHE SAMPSON

2/3/10

Nutrition - Salon.com

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Nutrition

Getting the munchies ... in the hospital

A doctor isn't surprised when patients don't have an appetite, but there's a way to make them want to eat

A version of this story originally appeared on Doctor and Mama

It's bad enough that the air smells vaguely of waste covered up by antiseptic spray, you're sitting in a hospital bed in a johnny, and probably have an IV stuck in your arm. Then they bring you that glop that passes as food: tasteless, soggy, gray. How are you supposed to get better on hospital food? Nobody wants to eat it, precisely when their bodies need them to eat the most.

One of my colleagues in medical school began his

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