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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
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.
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.
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
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.
God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees
God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees
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.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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