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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is read more
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
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.
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt read more
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
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.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and read more
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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.
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
