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I would rather
be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large
hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small
one.
-- Aneurin Bevan
1897-1960, British Labor
Politician
How many
desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues
of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet
The sick man
must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He
is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones
(hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living
of everything that might hinder the chain of production and
consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent
back up to the surface of progress.
-- Michel De Certeau
French Writer
A Hospital is
no place to be sick.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
1882-1974, American Film
Producer, Founder, MGM
We achieve
''active'' mastery over illness and death by delegating all
responsibility for their management to physicians, and by
exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals
serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be
properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can
do so only among those who love and value us. The result is
the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill,
characteristic of our age.
-- Thomas Szasz
1920-, American Psychiatrist
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