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 men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in read more

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing

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.

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.

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.

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.

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny read more

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.

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

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months read more

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.