Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

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.

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.

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 Hospital is no place to be sick.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

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.

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.

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.

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