Quotes About Hospital

There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital's Christmas party.

Somebody is n the hospital begging God for the opportunity u have right now. Step into your moment.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

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

Now you are dead, your heart throbbing too fast for the doctors at the veterans' hospital to keep the beat, their pill bottles rattling, maracas in a mambo for the doomed.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

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Jessamy stayed behind, angry that Alistair seemed not to understand how important it was to her to have their own home. For years they had had to meet in secret until her divorce came through from Fabian Montague, her former husband. These were years during which Romaine had known Alistair as her uncle, while she was really his child. Why could he not understand her need for them to be in their own home, not in a busy dispensary-cum-hospital, where there would be sick and dying people?

The last place I want to be is the hospital, but I'm not stupid. I know when it's time to go in. I am so terrified of myself and of the vast, frightening world, that the psych ward, with its safe locked doors, sounds like a relief.

I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.

The fury began before she was old enough to give it a name. When she arrived at the hospital, dragged through the door into the red era of soul science, her fury was called hysteria, as if it had nothing to do with her, and she became we. and we became the disease that said we wanted to steal, to falsely accuse, to set things on fire. Fine, let it burn.

Philosophy is not a hospital. If people are vertiginous and want to take medication against it, I don't stop them, but I say: this is medication.

the hospital, I always felt like Alice at the Mad Hatter's tea party: I had woken up in a world that seemed utterly logical to its inhabitants but quite mad to me.

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

I'm thinking that after last night you shouldn't have to spend your morning in a hospital finding out if my mother has tried to OD." "And I'm thinking that after last night I want to be anywhere you are and if that means being in a hospital asking about your mother, then so be it.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

An unusual problem developed when a case of smallpox was brought to the hospital. Smallpox was too contagious to be allowed on the wards. Its victims had to be specially isolated. But where? Osler drove the patient up to the mayor of Hamilton's home, a sure way of getting action. Special accommodation was arranged in a secluded house. Osler visited the patient twice a day until he died, and then did an autopsy on the spot, helped by the German housekeeper.

Mrs. Figg breaks her leg

The ceilings of hospital rooms are stained with the oily residue of souls spat out of dying patients' parched mouths. The

The hospital, like a beast with a thousand hearts, was stretching and yawning, settling into the night.

From the moment the doors of a hospital open for the first time and the first patient is treated, the facility acquires a pulse and begins to develop a personality as unique as any individual's. It fumbles and grows, learning from its mistakes. It stretches and explores, reaching out more and more to the world around it. Its organs decay and need repair or replacement. Its moods - the collective moods of its patients and employees - grow more distinctive.

At the hospital, I was asked for my autograph; I'm right-handed and couldn't sign. So I was asked for photos. While hooked up to IV lines.

The cab drops Audie outside the Texas Children's Hospital. Money changes hands and the driver looks at the cash and suggests he deserves a tip. Audie says he should be nicer to his mother and gets a reply that no mother would approve of. pg.132

He had seen terrible faces in the hospital—faces on which disease had set dreadful marks—but he had never seen a face that impressed him so painfully as this withered countenance, with its indescribable horror of death outlived, a face that should have been hidden under a coffin-lid years and years ago.