[name of hospital] probably had some well-equipped and modern wards, and parts of it may well be the very best in the land, but i was taken to none of these bits...dingy corridors, overcrowded wards, underworked staff, hogarthian inmates, bodesian plumbing and a television you had to pedal...i was pumped full of vitamins and drugged up to my toupee with valium.

from graham chapman's a liar's autobiography.