Sharon Stone Quotes

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

Hospitals are about healing.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

Medicine has always been my calling.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.

The “right to death" can easily become a threat to the life of patients whose treatment is hampered by lack of funds.

Find a doctor who cares about you, because a big part of health care is caring.

There is the utmost order & contentment in their [the British] hospitals. The wounded whom we brought off from the field were not half so well treated as those whom we left in General Howe's hands. Our Officers and Soldiers spoke with gratitude and affection of their Surgeons. An orderly man was allotted to every ten of our wounded, and British Officers called every morning upon our officers to know whether their Surgeons did their duty.