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.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt read more

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.