Healthcare Safety Quotes

There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

I was thinking as I bent over to receive my injection, next time I'm gonna use protection.

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Shouldn't EVERY week be Infection Control Week?

It may seem a strange principal to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room ... watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I'm gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.

One out of three American women will need or chose an abortion at some time in their lives. We have to make sure these are safe.

If we are going to keep patients safe, then we have to make sure that doctors are able to learn from mistakes.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

We have learned a lot about how to treat Ebola, how to ensure that the people caring for people with Ebola do so minimizing their risk of infection.

The bottom line is that Ebola is hard to treat, and when the first patient ever with Ebola came to the United States, we thought the guidelines would protect the health care workers.