In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

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.

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.