Get-well card

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 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 9780415926485 
  2. ^ "The stay ill card", British Medical Journal 315: 1125, 1997 
  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