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 sma...ll one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...we avoid hospitals because ... they'll kill you there. They overtreat you. And when they see how old you are, and that you stil...l have a mind, they treat you like a curiosity: like "Exhibit A" and "Exhibit B." Like, "Hey. nurse, come on over here and looky-here at this old woman, she's in such good shape...." . Most of the time they don't even treat you like a person, just an object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
last time I saw you was the hospital pale skull protruding under ashen skin... blue veined unconscious girl in an oxygen tent the war in Spain has ended long ago Aunt RoseLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I place these numbed wrists to the pane watching white uniforms whisk over... him in the tube-kept prison fear what they will do in experimentLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
and of my distrusting self white-doctor-who-breathed-for-him-all-night... say it for two sons gone, say nightmare, say it loud panebreaking heartmadness: nightmare begins responsibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The WORD was that Hard Rock wasn't a mean nigger Anymore, that the doctors had bored a hole in his head,... Cut out part of his brain, and shot electricity Through the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
see the shaky future grow familiar in the pinched, indigenous faces... of these thoroughbred mental cases, twice my age and half my weight. We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »