This change happened as a result of other military hospitals being closed down.

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Since there are no longer any military hospitals, Garthley was taken to a large public hospital.

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The second pavilion, 'The Calling', reflecting Florence's underlying belief in her call to God's service, recreates the climax of Nightingale's life: her experiences during the Crimean War in the years 1854 to 1856, when she led a Government-sponsored party of nurses to the military hospitals at Scutari on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, and then to the Crimea itself, and in so doing became a national heroine.

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So far at least 280 people, mostly soldiers returning from the battlefield, have been infected, a number of whom contracted the illness while in U.S. military hospitals.

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On a larger scale, stationary fuel cells are providing back-up power for hospitals, military bases, banks, and telecoms (especially to keep cell towers online).

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The portability of the device means it is likely to have a use outside hospitals - allowing scanning to be done wherever its needed, in the home or perhaps for the military - on the battlefield.

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