Hospitals Quotes - Page 7

• L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

  Michael Moore

  Cities, Patient

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• Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

  Gary Miller

  Doors, Rehabilitation, Pay

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• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  James McGreevey

  Different, Life Living, Integrated

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• I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

  Stephen King

  Home, Intelligence, Hospitality

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• When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.

  Alan King

  Running, Morning, Apples

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• One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Memorable, Health

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Hurt, College, Thinking

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• If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

  Jesse Jackson

  Cancer, Doctors, Black

  "Jesse Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 24, 2008.

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• I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

  David Hockney

  Years, Nhs, People

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• I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Past, Night, One Night

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• Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

  Zaha Hadid

  Important, Housing, Important Things

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• Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

  Elton Gallegly

  Summer, Country, Jobs

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• Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.

  Donald Berwick

  War, Mean, Doctors

  Interview with Maggie Mahar, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2009.

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• I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.

  Jacque Fresco

  Crazy, Thinking, Names

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• By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mean, Doctors, Office Work

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• America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

  Bill Frist

  Country, Technology, Doctors

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• 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.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sympathy, War, Alive

  Speech in the House of Commons, 30 April (1946)

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• Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Children, Phones

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• I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

  Evel Knievel

  Lucky To Be Alive, Blood, Years

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

  Halle Berry

  Healthy, Lifestyle, Ends

  "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

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• A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

  Jo Brand

  Nursing, Practice, Nurse

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• A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

  Demetri Martin

  Character, Men, Games

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.

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• URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

  Ziggy Marley

  Kids, Giving, Charity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  Imelda Marcos

  Home, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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