- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hospital Quotes
Memories from the ward.
These quotes speak to hospitals as places tied to both crisis and care, from a birth induction to years of managing a chronic condition afterward. Related reading includes Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in L.A. County Hospital, but I grew up in Pasadena. I married my 8th grade sweetheart, Marcia.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children's hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since Katrina, there has been a proliferation of efforts at the state level and among hospital administrators to come up with guidelines that would help professionals stuck in a situation like this to prioritize patients. These are questions of values much more than they are of medicine or nursing. They're the province of everybody.
- Nov 07, 2020
I missed a lot of school. I was always sick. I was in the hospital a lot. Asthma kicked my butt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety.
- Nov 07, 2020
I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hospital is no place to be sick.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
- Beds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.
- Beard
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was presenting 'Animal Hospital,' the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife's mascara to darken it.
- Eight
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020