Quotes About Emergency

I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.

If you put out the fire, you won't have to jump out the window!

What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough.

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head - real Frankenstein stitches.

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.

Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.

We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

I live in dread that I might find myself in some sort of emergency, and everyone will turn to me and expect me to know what the correct procedures are.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

I know how to use a tourniquet, a bandage, I know how to stitch, how to do CPR and a lot of technical bits too.

When a temple catches fire, irrespective of their faith, everyone works to douse the flames. Similarly, all parties worked against the forces that imposed Emergency.

TV-based politics is to political action as watching ER is to saving someone in distress.

This was the guy in the "break glass in case of war" box.

he was better suited to a crisis than to keeping a commitment going . . . He was well suited to emergencies, to holding his nerve, to quick thinking and fast reactions, but found the qualities demanded by Joan's slow decline harder to summon.

Slater was so fed up that he got on the microphone and cussed out passengers, grabbed two beers, and then activated and slid down the emergency escape slide.

If I'm in an elevator and it starts to fall to the bottom of the shaft, can I jump up at the last instant and cancel the impact?

standing position, leapt into action and started to perform CPR

When someone asked if he had ever doubted the North's final victory, he shot back, "Never for a moment." He quoted Seward, saying "that there was always just enough virtue in this republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency, and he agreed with Mr. Seward in this view.

that there was always just enough virtue in this republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency, and he