Get-well card

An example from 1949.

A get-well card is a greeting card which is sent to someone when they are ill.[1] Their use in the case of chronic and terminal illness is problematic because the patient may not be expected to recover but they may still offer comfort to the invalid.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ The encyclopedia of ephemera, Routledge, 2000, pp. 166, 271, ISBN 978-0-415-92648-5
  2. ↑ "The stay ill card", British Medical Journal 315, 1997: 1125, doi:10.1136/bmj.315.7116.0h
  3. ↑ Ernest Dudley Chase (1956), "Sunshine for the Shut-In and Get-Well cards for the Ill", The romance of greeting cards, pp. 148–152
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