The crowded wards in this city almost always have someone newly mutilated.

In the smaller, more crowded ward he found evidence of three patients for whom he had done his best and failed.

In a crowded ward at Metropolitan Hospital, a patient was recently found smoking cocaine in her bed.

He set off at a trot with her running to keep up as they dodged through the huts and sheds in the crowded ward.

"We've waited long enough," Dr. Torvin was saying, shaking his balding head sadly as they moved through the crowded ward, surveying the hapless patients.

But as the shelling and shooting intensified near Nasiriya, her doctors moved her to a crowded ward.

The emotionally disturbed, brought into crowded psychiatric wards, sometimes spend the night strapped to stretchers.

She looked up at the sound of shouts coming from one of the crowded wards, then sighed.

Dr. Petrie put on his gown and mask, and followed Sister Maloney into the crowded ward.

And emotionally disturbed people brought to crowded psychiatric wards sometimes spend nights strapped to stretchers or, in the case of patients from jails, handcuffed to wheelchairs.