Florence Nightingale Quotes

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.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

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.

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

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

One of the very best things about being a coach or student-athlete at UCLA is if you need medical attention, you won't find any better place in the country than at the incomparable UCLA Medical Center.

If we can keep you healthy, that is better. If you fall sick, you go to the hospital. Both sides, Philips is present.

I was a nurse.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

If you haven’t noticed the Canadians, when they need a big operation, when something happens, they come into the United States in many cases because their system is so slow. It’s catastrophic in certain ways.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated... He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.