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Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.

Hospitals are about healing.

Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to think about care.

Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.

No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America's heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel.

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.