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outside one, with no responsibilities and no duties, which makes it difficult for
many of the patients after recovery and being released, in coping with the
outside world.. "Bianca" trial was supposed to have avoided that point..
Some patients act as customers, while others act as waiters.. The waiters are
only allowed to deal with previously prepared drinks or meals, and they serve
them only under supervision of D.”Youssef" or his assistant D."Noha" - who
was checking things in the kitchen now - as the patients aren't allowed here to
deal with knives or boiling water or kitchen equipment, or anything that could
be used to hurt someone, even if by mistake.. Besides, stable cases were the
only allowed to deal with the kitchen, in the presence of him or his assistant,
who check things every hour or less..
He looked at the TV in the corner, switched off from some time now, as it was
switched on in certain times only, and when it was on, only broadcasting pre-
taped funny programs or sitcoms.. The reason for this was them not wanting to
subject the patients to violent scenes or news, fearing they would relapse again..
But an interesting fact he noticed was that many of the patients imagine the TV
on in many times it was turned off in, in addition to them seeing imaginary
news reports on it at these times.. "Youssef" didn't pass this information to the
hospital's management, in fear of them considering this was a sign of the failure
of the trial, and call the whole thing off.. Just some time.. All he needed was
some time to give them the results they wanted..
He looked at "Dalia", and her daughter "Leila", who were the victims of a car
crash that killed the husband and left them with complete amnesia.. He
watched them both as they went to sit beside amnesic "Mourad", who reacted
well with them, maybe because they shared the same case and all the three of
them didn't remember any past life before entering the hospital, which made
them imagine a whole story of how they came here, a story that included both
of them being in love and about to get married, and "Leila" was the daughter of