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.