One's family is the most important thing
in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a
hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll
be with me will be my family.
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.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
I want to walk into a room, be it a
hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel
that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
