Dorothy Parker Quotes

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

As more of our medical records are stored electronically, the threats to our privacy will increase.

The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers.

Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

Personally, I'm very private, so when my door is closed, it means I'm unavailable, and when it's open, it doesn't mean you can come in.

Whatever surgery someone wants to get is none of your business.

If I'm DJing, and you stop me and take a picture? That's annoying.

There is nothing private about delivering a child with doctors and nurses surrounding you.

In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

My mom's a nurse so I'd kind of grown up with, around medicine which is probably why I became an actress instead.

What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.

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)

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling--the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.