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  • Hospitals are about healing. -- Irwin Redlener
  • Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization -- Florence Nightingale
  • Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends. -- Molly Haskell
  • Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia. -- Kevin Rudd
  • So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it. -- Robert Reich
  • Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay. -- Gary Miller
  • We are confident that shared values of Wockhardt Hospitals and Fortis Healthcare will form the basis for our continued success in the future. -- Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next. -- James Purefoy
  • Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. -- Alan Watts
  • Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated ... -- Anna Quindlen
  • The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role. -- John Cameron
  • Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease. -- Sarah Wayne Callies
  • Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved. -- Timothy Murphy
  • Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor. -- Elton Gallegly
  • Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home. -- Florence Nightingale
  • I think what's great about your community is that it's different than anyone else's. Look around. What do you want to change? What needs to be built, or what's valuable and needs to be maintained? Is it the people? Local animals? Your parks or gardens? Hospitals? -- Debby Ryan
  • Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx
  • ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working. -- Magic Johnson
  • You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals. -- Queen Mary
  • We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American. -- Barbara Boxer
  • Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all. -- Dan Benishek
  • 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 Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning. -- William Scranton
  • I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion. -- Sharon Stone
  • When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues. -- Hillary Clinton
  • I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools. -- Tony Abbott
  • When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals. -- Dennis Hastert
  • I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing. -- Ian Smith
  • When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. -- Bono
  • I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently. -- Elyn Saks
  • It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. -- Thomas Sowell
  • We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it. -- Jonathan Kozol
  • America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world. -- Bill Frist
  • If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers. -- Ina May Gaskin
  • Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home. -- Shari Arison
  • Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war. -- Donald Berwick
  • Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places. -- Pedro Almodovar
  • I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food. -- Imelda Marcos
  • And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples. -- Barack Obama
  • By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals. -- Thomas Friedman
  • What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job. -- Barack Obama
  • Much suffering in hospitals is wasted. -- Fulton J. Sheen
  • ... the arts are the hospitals for our souls ... -- Suzanne Farrell
  • Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals. -- Anais Nin
  • Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities. -- Erich Maria Remarque
  • In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior. -- Josephine Tey
  • Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society. -- Zaha Hadid
  • In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services -- Gary Miller
  • In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services. -- Gary Miller
  • Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, -- Bernard de Mandeville
  • Once you reach a certain age, you find yourself visiting hospitals a lot. -- Peter Capaldi
  • L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals. -- Michael Moore
  • I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny. -- Peter Capaldi
  • Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense... -- Elizabeth Warren
  • Religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion. -- Nancy Northup
  • Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? -- Michel Foucault
  • Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out. -- Iggy Pop
  • You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately. -- Dorothy Draper
  • Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients -- Carl Levin
  • Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. -- Carl Levin
  • Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients' hearts." -- Gayle Forman
  • There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. -- Oliver Sacks
  • America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals. -- Denis Parsons Burkitt
  • A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter. -- Czeslaw Milosz
  • The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals. -- Bernard DeVoto
  • Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ. -- William Temple
  • You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously. -- Helen Mirren
  • American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament. -- Roger Ross Williams
  • The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
  • White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst. -- Joan Mitchell
  • Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for. -- Derrick Williams
  • Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. -- Bill James
  • We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. -- Marie Curie
  • We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. -- Jonathan Kozol
  • The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
  • I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals. -- Luke Evans
  • If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better. -- Michel Onfray
  • It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens. -- Jon Kyl
  • Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing. -- Nicky Gumbel
  • Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello. -- Red Buttons
  • When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them. -- Jenny Lawson
  • Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. -- Lois Capps
  • I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart. -- Tom Cochrane
  • Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I want to be blessed so I can build orphanages. Blessed so I can build hospitals and do other things with our finances. -- Joel Osteen
  • We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of days. -- Chris Toumazou
  • If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales -- Andy Zaltzman
  • Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere. -- Andrew Lansley
  • Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals. -- Stephen Kinzer
  • If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • All evidence suggests that Turkey has allowed ISIS fighters, when they've been injured, to return into Turkey and to get treated in Turkey's hospitals. -- Vijay Prashad
  • I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. -- Roger Ebert
  • Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals. -- Denis Parsons Burkitt
  • I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying. -- Loretta Lynn
  • While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures. -- Henry Waxman
  • In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care. -- Jim Ryun
  • Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones. -- Sheri Fink
  • Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people. -- David Ogilvy
  • Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror. -- John Barrasso
  • When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites. -- Virginia Postrel
  • I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals. -- Evel Knievel
  • I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing. -- Zaha Hadid
  • The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools. -- Richard Branson
  • Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs. -- Deepak Chopra
  • While doing visits to hospitals, I have prayed over children with life threatening illnesses and continue to bring Jesus to every stage I walk on. -- Jonathan Cain
  • As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed. -- Charles Bukowski
  • 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 Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures. -- Robert Reich
  • I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp. -- Denis Healey
  • Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs -- Gary Miller
  • We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think itâ??s easier to fight than it is to heal. -- Ann Aguirre
  • Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs. -- Gary Miller
  • The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan. -- Mark Shields
  • I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering. -- T. D. Jakes
  • Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great, but some sure aren't. -- Dave deBronkart
  • Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases. -- Rick Renzi
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