Hospital Patient Quotes

#1. She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill.

Ian McEwan

#2. A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably conclude that there is certainly no guarantee of proper health care by contracting it out.

Andrew Saul

#3. I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids.

Tom Guiry

#4. Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

Jacob M. Appel

#5. Tears are part of the leeway of the common areas of a hospital, since so many have to do their crying away from the patient's bed. You don't care who sees you cry in the lobby: it was port of entry for all the sorrows, and one gave up all one's previous citizenship at the border.

Paul Monette

#6. Testing stools for C. diff in patients after they have finished their Flagyl or Vanco for 10 days and after their bowel movements have returned to normal (that is, formed and not watery) is a waste of time and money, and is not helpful to the doctor or patient.

J. Thomas LaMont

#7. Given how tedious and dull the hospital could be, I always expected hospital inpatients to be happy to see us. But they frequently had the opposite reaction. Patients cringed as soon as the door swung open to reveal, ta da! Physical Therapy!

Adele Levine

#8. 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.

Rachel Platten

#9. Thanksgiving when he marched into the house after staying, supposedly, at the hospital with a critical patient all night, to tell her he'd filed for divorce.

Carolyn Brown

#10. This is not really me. I am not like this. I am like you. I am not a patient from a mental hospital. I am just an ordinary woman whose mind has gone temporarily wrong.

Sally Brampton

#11. This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.

Charles Baudelaire

#12. It was rare for a patient to readjust successfully to normal life after a period spent in a mental hospital.

Paulo Coelho

#13. That was why he was the director of the hospital and not a patient, because he thought a lot before making any decisions.

Paulo Coelho

#14. Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

C.S. Lewis

#15. When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

Josh Gates

#16. Seeing what was needed in the hospital firsthand - someone needs to come in and just be with patients, without trying to take their blood or change the bedpan, and to give them human-to-human touch.

Colleen Saidman

#17. You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#18. Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

Charles Baudelaire

#19. I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#20. This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire

#21. he gave the first modern-day description of the condition in children in a lecture at a London hospital in 1887, noting, "If the patient can be cured at all, it must be by means of diet.

David Perlmutter

#22. You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

Vance Havner

#23. For the patient who remained hospitalized a long time, an insidious metamorphosis took place - the outside world dimmed and faded like a watercolor exposed to the sun, while the hospital became the center and the only real part of the universe.

Marjorie Kellogg

#24. We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Bruce Vento

#25. Dr. Fortunato," Kristine shot back at Laurie, her resentment undisguised. "You don't know how we do things in Wright. Dr. Parrish doesn't care about hospital hierarchy. He's very accessible and he'd never let his ego get in the way of patient care. Maybe you do things differently where you work-

Lisa Scottoline

#26. The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.

Jeff Raz

#27. Once a patient goes brain dead and relatives sign his organ donation consent form, he will get the best medical treatment of his life. A hospital code blue may be a call for doctors to rush to the bedside of a beating heart cadaver who needs his or her heart defibrillated.

Dick Teresi

#28. In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

#29. Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

Jermaine Jackson

#30. Where patient needs are complex, we should provide greater support in the community so that patients can cut down on trips to the tertiary hospital.

Tony Tan

#31. At the end of the second week they were still working and Arretapec, Conway and their patient were being talked, whistled, cheeped and grunted about in every language in use at the hospital.

James White

#32. In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

Mehmet Oz

#33. Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?

Katie Hopkins

#34. Doctor(to patient): Give me your parent's number so that we can tell them what a bad boy you have been.

Patient(Confused, unwilling): You don't need to.

Doctor:Hospital Rules!!! And no matter how much i hate dead people, I hate Unpaid bills more

Durjoy Datta

#35. One patient got up and used his wound care supplies to tape his hospital door shut.

Adele Levine