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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months read more
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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.
