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.

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.

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.

A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.

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.

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.

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.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.