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.

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.

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.

Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.

Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.

God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees

God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and read more

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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.