Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

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.

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.

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.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.