Quotes About Hospital

In a hospital the most important fact about us is the year of our birth. But in our lives that year is of no particular importance. I had to grow old to understand that. Everyone dies young.

The six men set off for Amberg, twenty miles away, where there was a convalescent hospital.

Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy.

Look, I've got her, I'm carrying her, and I'm taking her to the hospital. So you can back off and let me do what I'm going to do, or you can get your ass kicked and I'm still going to do what I'm going to do. Your choice.

On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes' walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican.

So I arrive alone alongside Daddy's home hospital bed. There's the bleach from the sheets and the air tinny with iodine. Under the air conditioner grind, his breathing is labored. Honeysuckle vines cling to the window screen, and a chameleon hangs by its claws.

We've also bought three billboards, one over near the Bay Pines VA hospital, the other on I-75, north of the first Tampa exit, and the third on U.S. 19 in Clearwater.

A patient on the way to surgery travels at twice the speed of a patient on the way to the morgue. Gurneys that ferry the living through hospital corridors move forward in an aura of purpose and push, flanked by caregivers with long strides and set faces, steadying IVs, pumping ambu bags, barreling into double doors. A gurney with a cadaver commands no urgency. It is wheeled by a single person, calmly and with little notice, like a shopping cart(167).

It's this or a short hospital stay, she said, greeting Scarlett with a raised glass of a deep red liquid with a celery stalk sticking out of the top. Bloody Marys are one of the truly medicinal cocktails. The only way I can beat this jet lag is by staying up all day, and this is going to keep me alive. And who is this? This was directed at Marlene, who was stalking along behind Scarlett like a wet cat.

Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma. They end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs when, if you, they just gave, you gave, treatment early, and they got some treatment, and uhhh a breathalyzer, or uhh, an inhalator, not a breathalyzer...

We just came from the hospital where their mother died about an hour ago.

I had entered Kidneyland. I was officially a patient now. Somehow, I had managed to walk through the door: WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SICKNESS. We have air-conditioning and HBO.

So it may be that going to the hospital slightly increases your odds of surviving if you've got a serious problem but increases your odds of dying if you don't. Such are the vagaries of life.

los pacientes de hospital que mueren por una causa que no fue la que los llevó allí: malos diagnósticos (resultado del descuido, el orgullo o los prejuicios), errores de medicación (basados, con demasiada frecuencia, en la mala caligrafía), complicaciones técnicas (examinar una radiografía al revés, por ejemplo), e infecciones bacterianas (el problema más mortífero y más generalizado).

So it may be that going to the hospital slightly increases your odds of surviving if you've got a serious problem but increases your odds of dying if you don't.

Among the best solutions: using disposable blood-pressure cuffs on incoming patients; infusing hospital equipment with silver ion particles to create an antimicrobial shield; and forbidding doctors to wear neckties because, as the U.K. Department of Health has noted, they "are rarely laundered," "perform no beneficial function in patient care," and "have been shown to be colonized by pathogens.

el Instituto de Medicina calculaba que cada año mueren entre 44.000 y 98.000 norteamericanos a causa de errores hospitalarios evitables —más muertos que por accidentes de automóvil o cáncer de mama—, y que uno de los principales errores es la infección de heridas. ¿La mejor medicina para evitar las infecciones? Hacer que los médicos se laven las manos con más frecuencia.

One teenage boy, Amcher, had been named for the first thing his parents saw upon reaching the hospital: the sign for Albany Medical Center Hospital Emergency Room.

De modo que es posible que acudir al hospital aumente ligeramente sus probabilidades de sobrevivir si tiene un problema grave, pero aumenta sus probabilidades de morir si no lo tiene.

Take care, Jeffy. I'll see you soon, right? Just remember not to throw food at the nurses. I don't want to get any complaint calls, OK? Steven, I don't throw food at…oh, that was a joke, right? Yup, buddy boy. It was a joke. But seriously, no kissing the nurses on the lips, either. It messes up their makeup. Eeeeeeewwwww!

Era sempre crepúsculo na enfermaria. Era como uma antessala do túmulo, com as pesadas cortinas que impediam a luz de entrar.

Can I get you anything? A drink? A fresh change of clothes? A membership card to Hypocrites International?

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

It was like saying good-bye to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.