Some parallels with the Human Caterpillar, it looks like, at least on the non-elective surgery front.
Here's an attempt to give a much bigger clue on the hospital awakening one, though you'll have to seen it to get the whole thing, I think:
For one lunar month he is out
When he wakes up there’s no one about
Cut to London at dawn
Looking empty, forlorn.
That's from from Day of the Triffids! we shout.
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