So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
The only equipment lack[ing] in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake!
The very first requirement in a hospital [is] that it should do the sick no harm.
“When I used to see a patient who had been admitted to the emergency room,” [the medical specialist] said, “I would read an account of what the patient had said and done and what the doctor thought. Now what I get are the results of tests. I used to have a story, an understanding. Sometimes I can’t figure out what happened to the patient. I think medicine has lost the narrative.”
