- Discovers
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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
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're left on the floor of a hospital gasping for breath, or you can't get your kid a school place, the simplest things are your idea of radical.
- Conscious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was still conscious when I was being transported from the blast site to the hospital.
- Soldiers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in hospital between the Grand Prix in Australia and Malaysia because of a lack of water and a little bit of lack of everything. I was very weak.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a scar on my forehead. I was three years old, jumping on the bed with my brothers, and I fell off and hit my head on the dresser and cut it open, went to the hospital, got stitches, came home, went back on the bed, jumped with my brothers, fell again, and reopened the stitches.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
- Nervous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Manly Hospital, I pretty much grew up in my grandmother's house until my parents bought their own home.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020