- People
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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
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should at least make sure that patients are given the opportunity to opt out of spending their final days in a hospital, hooked up to tubes and running up enormous bills.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?
- Birth
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we come to the hospital to give birth, we don't come as a Jew or an Arab; we come as a human being.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get cross with foodies who think hospital food should be Michelin-star and caterers can fall into this trap.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the care I received at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, I wouldn't look the way I do now; my back would be hunched over.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.
- High Cholesterol
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.
- Nov 07, 2020