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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home read more
In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.
Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is
Hospital rooms seemt to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in.
Hospital rooms seemt to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in.
In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.
In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the read more
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I read more
Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown read more
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
