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 small one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.
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.
In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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.
There's nothing worse than walking into a hospital and seeing people sick and miserable and having a horrible treatment.
I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.