Patient Safety First Quotes

#1. To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: Behold a God or a guardian angel!

John Owen

#2. What we call things matters ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.

Anna Quindlen

#3. I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.

Mark Hoppus

#4. Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

C.S. Lewis

#5. Smiles come best from those who weep.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#6. In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

Andrew Lansley

#7. A complete revaluation takes place in your physical and mental being when you've laughed and had some fun.

Catherine Ponder

#8. Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

Steve Earle