Bill Maher Quotes

You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day.

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

Now the ambulance is always ready; the paramedics are always ready. People in the crowd can get help without risk. If you look at the Fabrice Muamba case, this is what helped save his life - the paramedics are there.

Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

I'm an ER doctor, period. I look at a problem with a certain lens: very action-oriented, very results-oriented.

Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.

I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

The emergency care Americans receive can fall short of what they expect and deserve.

Uninsured people don't just slink off into a corner and die. They seek treatment, but usually when it is an emergency, and this will be the most expensive kind of care available.

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are going to end up in the back of that ambulance.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Imagine someone who has had a heart attack on the street, and they are picked up by an ambulance with 5G connectivity, hi-definition scanners, and cameras... You start taking a scan in the ambulance so all of that data is transferred to the surgery before the patient arrives, and a diagnosis is already underway.

In a hospital, there's a lot of high-energy, seat-of-your-pants, in-the-moment things that need to be done.

As far as skills go, I hope that I could administer CPR now for real. My problem with it, actually, is I'm not sure I know when to administer CPR.