Hospitals Quotes - Page 14

• Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Pride, Vanity, Together

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.

  Abraham Verghese

  Country, Thinking, Men

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• If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, School, Simple

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

  Denis Healey

  Florence Nightingale, Lamps, Stalking

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• What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.

  Deborah Norville

  Thinking, Perception, Mind

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• Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in a madhouse after eating too much LSD, and accompanying Seattle actor and musician Michael McQuilken (of Collaborator Productions) to the hospital after a Frisbee accident. He reached up to catch it and cut his hand on a sign, .. He had to get a few stitches, but I think he can still play.

  Reggie Watts

  Adventure, Cutting, Thinking

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• Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.

  Saeb Erekat

  Civilization, Israel, Sick

  "Israel putting services in place in West Bank, Gaza" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for a Christmas song and it seemed strangely appropriate for me this year because Christmas is the time that I am supposed to be sort of back and up and running and whatnot. So I just wrote a song about returning from this very interesting journey and kind of getting back to normal and getting back to work and my regular life.

  Andrew McMahon

  Christmas, Running, Song

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• In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.

  Josephine Tey

  Behavior, Good Behavior, Time Off

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• We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

  Bruce Vento

  Bridges, Focus, Library

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• From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Book, Reading

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• Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.

  Dana White

  Mma, Guy, Bed

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• I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.

  Charles Montgomery

  Sweet, Opportunity, Wish

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• I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

  Samuel Wilson

  Physicians, Records, Medical

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• And why is it "homophobic" for Senate Republicans to look askance at sex in public bathrooms? Is the Times claiming that sodomy in public bathrooms is the essence of being gay? I thought gays just wanted to get married to one another and settle down in the suburbs so they could visit each other in the hospital.

  Ann Coulter

  Sex, Gay, Essence

  "Cruising While Republican" by Ann Coulter, www.wnd.com. September 5, 2007.

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• Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

  Jonathan Richman

  Long, Sometimes, Feels

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• Seeing what was needed in the hospital firsthand - someone needs to come in and just be with patients, without trying to take their blood or change the bedpan, and to give them human-to-human touch.

  Colleen Saidman

  Blood, Giving, Trying

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people.

  David Ogilvy

  Doctors, Two, People

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.26, Profile Books

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• The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.

  Michael Crichton

  Rich Life, Medical Knowledge, Facts

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.108, Vintage

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• People are conditioned to believe that error is inevitable.... However, we do not accept the same standard when it comes to our personal life. If we did, we would resign ourselves to being shortchanged now and then when we cash our paychecks. We would expect hospital nurses to drop a certain percentage of all newborn babies. We would expect to go home to the wrong house periodically. As individuals we do not tolerate these things. Thus we have a double standard, one for ourselves, one for the company.

  Phil Crosby

  Baby, Believe, Home

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• It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

  Mary Travers

  Garden, Years, Miracle

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• To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail.
  
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  The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Teenage, Block

  "An international campaign : Build moral pressure to end the occupation" by Desmond Tutu, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2002.

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• The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession.

  Eve Hewson

  Nursing, Jail, Nurse

  Source: collider.com

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• I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.

  Eve Hewson

  Jobs, Imagine

  Source: collider.com

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• It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well.

  Dennis Prager

  Drug, Physicians, Doe

  "A Society that Venerates Lawyers More than Doctors". jewishworldreview.com. November 3, 2009.

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