Quotes About Hospital

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.

My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!

Every hospital is, as I've noted, an interruption machine—a flood of people come to poke you and prod you and ask you questions.

By the road to the contagious hospitalunder the surge of the bluemottled clouds driven from thenortheast—a cold wind.

Doublespeak turns lies told by politicians into "being economical with the truth," sewage sludge into "regulated organic nutrients" that do not stink but "exceed the odor threshold," the death of a patient in a hospital into "negative patient care outcome," an explosion and fire in a nuclear power plant into an "energetic disassembly" and "rapid oxidation.

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

To those who don't understand why Fenton or Feinstein didn't simply put Holmes into a hospital whether he wanted to go or not: it just doesn't work that way. Protection from unjustified confinement is a very important civil right in the United States.

Just as a sycamore thrusts out leaves, so this universe thrusts out humanity. Our individuality is mere illusion and we remain, all of us, always, part of the great tree of creation, just as it remains part of us. These are the truths I learned, my child, alongside Magee in Number 24 General Hospital, Étaples, and which I pass on, now, to you.

Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.

His dad, dying in the hospital, had said something about pain. It stuck to you like flour. You thought you could wash it all away, out of your clothes, out of your hair. But some stray grain always persisted, slyly avoiding your well-meant attentions and the drugs the doctors had. Life was like that. The only thing to do, he said, was your best.

If Doc can't let it go, you can always remind him that statistically a human is more likely to die from a hospital error than from a motorcycle ride.

LB didn't have to inquire where Josh was. Among the curtains, white linens, IV lines, monitors, gray faces, and baby blue scrubs, Josh's private room would be the one between two Saudi army guards wearing berets and automatic weapons.

It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.

JEFF. I never asked. What happened to your leg, Mrs. Levaco? PATTIE. When Kim was staying at the hospital with her heart attack, I snuck out back for a quick smoke and I fell off the loading dock. JEFF. Oh. You probably shouldn't have been smoking anyway. PATTIE. Hey, I smoked when I was pregnant with Kim and nothin' happened to her ! ( Pattie exits .) JEFF. I'd like to put your mom in a room with my dad and conduct experiments.

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.