sanatorium

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The novel’s first-person, postwar frame involves another absurdist twist: Franz Wilzek, a resident of an Austrian sanatorium, is corralled into a live television interview.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2025

Physician conducting a medical examination of a dairy worker at the state tuberculosis sanatorium in Ah-Gwah-Ching, Minnesota, 1932.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025

Rowlands spent two years in a sanatorium as a child recovering from tuberculosis, a disease which claimed his sister Megan's life, and in the early 1990s he overcame bowel cancer.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2023

The relentless 10-month war has prompted a local commander to transform a Soviet-era sanatorium into a recovery center for servicemen to treat both mental and physical ailments.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2023

Doody spent four years in a tuberculosis sanatorium and refers to himself as a “lunger”—slang for someone who suffers from a disease of the lungs.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly