“ I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. ”
- John Nash- Copy
- 702
“ I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
- 2.5K
“ My beginning as a legally recognized individual occurred on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia, in the Bluefield Sanitarium, a hospital that no longer exists. ”
- John Nash- Copy
- 1.3K
“ How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Just because the hospital is in-network doesn't mean the doctors are. This can mean a savings of $20,000 to $30,000. ”
- Nora Johnson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind. ”
- Jack Buck- Copy
- 399
“ I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be. ”
- Princess Diana- Copy
- 1.9K
“ We achieve "active" mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us… ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
- 593
“ Failure should be nothing more than an embarrassment, like ending up in a gravel trap, rather than spending weeks in hospital. ”
- Damon Hill- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start. ”
- Dale Evans- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization. ”
- Florence Nightingale- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress. ”
- Michel De Certeau- Copy
- 100
“ Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
- 959
“ We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 3.7K
“ When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him graciously. When someone gives the hospital $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say, "that will help.". ”
- Robert H. Thorson- Copy
- 36
“ Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other… ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends. ”
- Molly Haskell- Copy
- 2.4K
“ We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 2K
“ The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. ”
- Maggie Kuhn- Copy
- 2.7K
“ In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.2K
“ One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. ”
- Jean Kerr- Copy
- 3.6K
“ He knows me, he knows the doctors here, and we are the best hospital in this part of the world. It's true, I am serious. ”
- Amitabh Bachchan- Copy
- 99
“ If beef is your idea of real food for real people you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. ”
- Neal Barnard M.D.- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. ”
- Carl Levin- Copy
- 2K
“ Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed. ”
- Dora Russell- Copy
- 253
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