The NHS is not known for its excellent medical care, efficiency and organization. This assertion was confirmed this week when a NHS van was sent to a garage for repair work with a dead body inside. Apparently the van was used to transport bodies to a mortuary and somehow a body got left behind. Those in charge have taken the matter seriously and have apologized to the garage and the family of the deceased for this unacceptable occurrence, and the driver of the van has been fired. Although some may find this this story to be amusing in several ways, the author of the article does not take a light approach in describing the events from the past week. Instead he takes the standard journalistic approach to a hard news story with direct facts and quotes without any eye-catching techniques to make the article more interesting. Despite the “cookie-cutter” approach, the article conveys a bit of humor since the author is describing an out of the ordinary occurrence in an every-day, matter of fact way.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10004707/NHS-van-checked-into-garage-with-body-still-inside.html
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