Quotes About Hospitals

225,000 people have died "iatrogenic deaths" in the past year. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), it's the third largest cause of death in the United States.

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.

They gleam, reflecting rainbow hues—insinuating questions ... What is eternity? Why are the stars? Where do cats lay their eggs? And why don't hospitals have flushing bedpans built into the beds?

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

we have now begun a wide range of case involvement at religiously connected hospitals and universities that are already exempt from having to cover contraception, in my view a completely unnecessary accommodation this administration doled up to such entities.

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.

I think the world will just be better if AI is helping us. It will reduce the cost of goods, giving us good education, changing the way we run hospitals and the health-care system - there's just a long list of things.

Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.

The quality of health care in Canada is excellent.

We need to provide all areas of the country with access to high-quality medical care.

Mom was a nurse's aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

Public hospitals should be for the poor - everyone else should have private health insurance.

two-thirds of such complications were due to errors in care.

It was estimated that, nationwide, upward of forty-four thousand patients die each year at least partly as a result of errors in care.

The hospitals lobbied the government for help, and in 1954 lawmakers provided funding to enable them to build separate custodial units for patients needing an extended period of "recovery." That was the beginning of the modern nursing home. They were never created to help people facing dependency in old age. They were created to clear out hospital beds—which is why they were called "nursing" homes.

But once he put his recommendations down on paper it was hard for hospitals and medical groups not to follow through and hold doctors to the plan.

She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hospitals. Finally, she went to a hospital that helped her figure things out enough to try and make things normal, so she moved in with my family.

If it was up to me, people unable to live independently would be cared for in small, humane hospitals subject to strong oversight and addicts would be offered clean beds, three squares, and serious detox, and if that didn't work, supervised dosage of drugs.

It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals. I've spent thirty years teaching history at Columbia and I don't think I've spent more than fifteen minutes in the freshman dorm. Are we the ones keeping Lincoln's memory alive? Or are we burying it?

a recent survey of sixty highly ranked United States hospitals asked their employees whether they'd feel comfortable receiving medical care in the unit in which they work. The response at more than half the hospitals was a resounding "No!

medical harm as one of the top three killers in the United States.

440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or "roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.

The two primary factors in these deaths are nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections11 and medical errors.