“This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.”

— Charles Baudelaire, book Le Spleen de Paris

Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit. <br class="br">XLVIII: "Anywhere out of the world" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Anywhere_out_of_the_world <br class="br">Le Spleen de Paris (1862) <br class="br">Source: On Wine and Hashish

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French poet 1821–1867

Victoria Sweet Physician

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017)

“How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.”

Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor

As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.

“Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.”

Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist

Source: Anatomy of an Illness

“Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.”

Jacob M. Appel (1973) American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic

"Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-m-appel/rational-rationing-vs-irr_b_622057.html, The Huffington Post (2010-06-23)