Hospital Quotes

“Our hospital was famous and had housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“My mother was in the hospital
& I didn't want to be her friend. She wanted to be the family grocery list. Low-fat yogurt, firm tofu. She didn't trust my father to be it. You always forget something, she said. even when
I do the list for you. Even then.”
― Chen Chen

“Никита сидел на стуле между двумя койками, обложенный конфетами и другими гостинцами, как могилка.”
― Алексей Сальников, Опосредованно

“The worst people to get medical treatment from are often the doctors.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 has turned nursing into a very risky occupation.”
― Steven Magee

“Still, when you work in a hospital, the papers you file aren't just papers: they are fragments of narratives filled with risks & triumphs.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Je n'allume plus jamais ce poste recouvert d'un plastique jaune que l'on m'apporté avec une fausse magnanimité. J'ai trop peur de saisir cette voix chaude et tendre, trop peur de l'imaginer derrière les murs gris de cet hôpital sinistre.

[I will never again turn on this yellow plastic-covered radio that was given to me with fake generosity. I'm too afraid of encountering that warm, gentle voice, too afraid of imagining it behind the grey walls of this sinister hospital.]”
― Valérie Valère, Le Pavillon des enfants fous

“If I were a doctor or nurse and I showed up to the hospital and found they had no sterile personal protective equipment (PPE), I would go to the staff room and wait until the health and safety issues were resolved.”
― Steven Magee

“I thought back to med school, when a patient had told me that she always wore her most expensive socks to the doctor’s office, so that when she was in a patient’s gown and shoeless, the doctor would see the socks and know she was a person of substance, to be treated with respect.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Insecurity paralyses, makes one feel half-dead,
especially if one is already tied to the hospital bed.”
― Eleni Cay, The Love Virus

“Hello COVID-19, hello intensive care.”
― Steven Magee

“Hundreds of children are dying because of gross negligence of hospital and you’ve the guts to tell on my face that everything happens for a good reason.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Mais quel crime ai-je donc commis ? Ai-je tué quelqu'un et ensuite perdu la mémoire ? Ai-je tué, volé ? Non, j’ai fait un choix. Il ne les concerne pas, ce n’est pas eux qui en souffrent, je suis inoffensive. Je les déteste ceux qui disent que je leur fais du mal en me laissant mourir. Ils ne peuvent pas savoir, je ne leur dirai pas, d'ailleurs ils ne m'aiment plus, ce n'est pas ainsi qu'on aime.”
― Valérie Valère, Le Pavillon des enfants fous

“Frequent visits to doctors is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in.”
― Steven Magee

“I have no recollection of seeing a mercury vapor detector at facilities where mercury was in use.”
― Steven Magee

“Working at one of the largest university teaching hospitals in Europe proved to be instrumental in developing the medical diagnosis and treatment of Magee’s Disease (MD).”
― Steven Magee

“My nickname when I worked at the university research and teaching hospital was ‘Angel’.”
― Steven Magee

“One of the many aspects of human survival is recognizing incompetent doctors.”
― Steven Magee

“Take a walk around a hospital counting the wireless radiation antenna systems and you will be shocked at how large the number is!”
― Steven Magee

“Middle aged people are the bulk of what hospital emergency departments are seeing for COVID-19 in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“If you want to avoid COVID-19, you avoid doctors.”
― Steven Magee

“What kind of crazy person is going to donate their COVID-19 survival kit to the hospital?”
― Steven Magee

“The failure of the healthcare system to adequately prepare for a pandemic is not my problem.”
― Steven Magee

“You would have to be desperate to apply for a job in a hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“Doctors and nurses are brave souls during a pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“Your preventable sickness has been turned into a prescription drug profit center.”
― Steven Magee

“The ‘American Dream’ is on a ventilator at the hospital.”
― Steven Magee

“The liar is in hospital with COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee

“Cuando algo malo sucede, puedes llorar estando solo, pero las lágrimas no cambiarán nada, sólo te sentirás más herido e impedido. Pero si aceptas tu cruz, con el tiempo aprenderás a llevarla, como demostraba el aguante de mi madre y la tranquilidad de mi padre. Hizo un gesto con la cabeza hacia el crucifijo colgado en la pared de su habitación de hospital. «Mira todo lo que sufrió Jesús», dijo. «¿Cómo puedo llorar si Él me está mirando? Lo ofrezco por la gente que no cree».”
― Mirjana Soldo, My Heart Will Triumph

“Passed NCLEX without studying”
― allexamscertificates.com