It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.
In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.
You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small business owners shouldn't have to break the bank to provide coverage to their employees. And families should not be forced into bankruptcy because of a medical crisis.
A hospital is no place to be sick.
When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick.
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.