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.

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.

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.

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.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease

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.

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.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization