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In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.
In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.
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.
Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.
Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.
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.
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease
The doctor is to be feared more than the 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.
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
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.
