- Everything
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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
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.
- February
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- Nov 07, 2020
In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Healthcare continues to move outside the hospital and into our homes and everyday lives. With leading doctors and psychologists, for example, we've developed personal health programs designed around patients to catalyze sustainable behavioural change.
- Grandson
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting a pedicure seems to be a standard pre-birth ritual, presumably because it is relaxing and makes you feel pretty even though your little piggies are going to be covered in those awesome no-skid hospital socks which I kept on for three days.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.
- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to hospital and they gave me an MRI scan and thought it was a non-cancerous tumour, because I had bled in my pituitary gland. It was very painful, so they ended up delivering John early. That whole process was terrifying. All I cared about was John.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020