Phyllis McGinley Quotes

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

In a majority of hospitals, in a majority of places, it is the nurses that are on the frontlines. They're the ones working every moment with the patients to ensure that they do well.

I was a nurse.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

My advice to the Sultan is to build hospitals for sick Muslims, with a staff of physicians and attendants who will cure them and minister to their needs

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health caredebate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

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.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating as it should. My brain is firing off messages that are loud and clear. My wife is on the upright hospital bed, positioned the way people sleep on airplanes, her body stiff, head cocked to the side. Her hands on her lap.