Amanda continues her exploration of Stephen Jenkinson’s sublime ‘wonderings’ while experiencing life in WA’s ‘best’ rehab public hospital. She worries about the quality and relevance of the physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy on offer and tussles with her own tendency towards being institutionalised. While feeling defeated by the huge bureaucracy devoted to disease, she finds solace in the dusty, neglected zones and the workers-with-heart who sustain humanity in the face of a system hollowed out by small-minded economic thinking.
