April 18 2020
Hospitals... The only place where the word “positive” means a bad thing.
Anonymous
Nurses may not be angels, but they are the next best thing.
Anonymous
What a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.
Josh Bazell
Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.
Sarah Wayne Callies
A hospital is no place to be sick.
Samuel Goldwyn
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Hippocrates
Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates
The most frequent lie in a hospital: it won't hurt.
Gerhard Kocher
Hospital: (n.) where the healthy go to get misdiagnosed and the sick go to get mistreated.
Sol Luckman
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended at all even to take in the whole sick population.
Florence Nightingale
Hospital life - with its byzantine array of moving parts layered atop the unpredictable rhythms of illness is a permanent state of flux.
Danielle Ofri
The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb.
George Orwell
A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.
Francis Owalsh
You sit in a hospital's emergency area and realize how god damn valuable health and life is - something so many of us takes for granted.
Nitya Prakash
Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated
Anna Quindlen
A hospital alone shows what war is.
Erich Maria Remarque
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.
Lionel Shriver