PARFIT GENTIL KNYGHTS: the days, weeks, and months that some patients spend in hospitals can drag on (no pun intended), and hence diversions are sometimes deemed necessary and certainly always welcome when opportunity arise. However, some patients in India inconsiderately resort to actions that infringe on the rights of others to a wholesome environment while hospitalized in a common ward. Smoking in bed was routinely engaged in by other patients during Virraj Sorhvi's stay at New Delhi's Apollo Hospital in 2007 and 2008: you could practically get away with murder as long as you kept your mouth shut with regard to any complaints you might have been harbouring against members of the hospital personnel. For God help you should you choose to grumble about any malpractice on the part of the staff or the so-called "consultants" (the Apollo Hospital's non-doctor "doctors")... — the security guards would immediately receive instructions to snoop around your bedside at all times, on the lookout for the slightest infractions, and to harass your visitors with intrusive questions. On the other hand, the camaraderie that tended to establish itself between patients, as with any people going under in the same boat, served to some extent as a counterweight to the officiousness of the employees. (Note that while the patient smoking in bed in the background of the frame attempts to hide his first two drags under the blanket, he finally brazens out being filmed and actually tells the person sitting in the chair in front of him to move so as to give the camera an unobstructed view of his third puff on the cigarette, which in an act of bravado he then takes boldly in plain view of all, exhaling the smoke with relish and defiance...)

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