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The practices of prohibiting hospital visitors from sitting beside a patient on the bed when visiting and banning flowers from hospital rooms in British health care facilities was the topic of a Wednesday editorial in the BMJ medical journal.In the commentary, author Dr. Iona Heath, a London-based general practitioner, argued that, "Rules that mostly diminish rather than enhance the joys of life have no place in hospitals, where joy is too often in short supply.""Doctors should...