Hospital Operations Quotes

Dear patient (first name, last name)! You are presently located in our experimental state hospital. The measures taken to save your life were drastic, extremely drastic (circle one). Our finest surgeons, availing themselves of the very latest achievements of modern medicine, performed one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten operations (circle one) on you. They were forced, acting wholly in your interest to replace certain parts of your organism with parts obtained from other persons, in strict accordance with Federal Law (Rev. Stat. Comm. 1-989/0-001/89/1). The notice you are now reading was thoughtfully prepared in order to help you make the best possible adjustment to these new if somewhat unexpected circumstances in your life, which, we hasten to remind you, we have saved. Although it was found necessary to remove your arms, legs, spine, skill, lungs, stomach, kidneys, liver, other (circle one or more), rest assured that these mortal remains were disposed of in a manner fully in keeping with the dictates of your religion; they were, with the proper ritual, interred, embalmed, mummified, buried at sea, cremated with the ashes scattered in the wind - preserved in an urn - thrown in the garbage (circle one). The new form in which you will henceforth lead a happy and healthy existence may possibly occasion you some surprise, but we promise that in time you will become, as indeed all our dear patients do, quite accustomed to it We have supplemented your organi ~ Stanisław Lem

He went to Scotland and studied under Lister ... ("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland ... He was referred to as a crazy Listerite ... He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia. ~ Paul Douglas

The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven. ~ Pete Cashmore

The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back. ~ David Ortiz

Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq. ~ Jack Keane

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations. ~ Percy Williams Bridgman

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity. ~ Hugh Shelton

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms. ~ Mike Jackson

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. ~ Keith Ellison

I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital. ~ Richard Simmons

Our review concludes that DraftKings'/FanDuel's operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law. ~ Eric Schneiderman

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. ~ Lee Iacocca

Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence. ~ George Washington

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity. ~ Gloria Reuben

If Castle Dracula screwed a hospital, this would be the bastard offspring. ~ Larissa Ione

As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror. ~ Robin Hayes

I wrapped myself in the flimsy hospital gown and tiptoed across the hospital room to sit down on the hospital bed, holding my arms across my chest, trying to contain my breasts. They seemed enormous and unpredictable without a bra. ~ Jessica Knoll

Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital? ~ Andrew Lansley

I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania. ~ Bam Margera

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations. ~ Cofer Black

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair. ~ Mercy Otis Warren

The medical operations are so challenging because they're so technical, as well. I assumed before we started that we would do the classic thing, when it comes to the operations, that we would do all of these inserts with real doctors. ~ Clive Owen

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article. ~ Henry Ford

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice. ~ Lee Trevino

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason ... ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity. ~ Tom Metzger

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure. ~ Mike Jackson

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd. ~ Benjamin Graham

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations. ~ Jessica Brown Findlay

FLIGHT OF FOLLY. WOMAN TRAPPED IN CAGE OF OPEN DOORS. ~ Janette Turner Hospital

Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations. ~ Duncan Hunter

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations. ~ Bill Brandt

Mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose. ~ Eugene Wigner

We are not able to express ourselves in a hospital, even when seriously ill, we don�t have time. ~ Julio Pereira

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital. ~ Steven Magee

In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it. All of these operations, they are terror operations. ~ Noam Chomsky

A game looks like a set of operations, but after the payoff it becomes apparent that these operations were really maneuvers; not honest requests but moves in the game. ~ Eric Berne

Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibilities in regards to the mounting and operation of peacekeeping missions around the world. ~ Romeo Dallaire

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. ~ Warren Buffett

My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it. ~ Astley Cooper

The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~ Anne O'Hare McCormick

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates. ~ Francine Busby

Some small and very specialized breeding operations bred saddle horses for hunter and jumper competitions - these tended to be small-scale operations owned by wealthy private breeders who kept one or two horses at stud. ~ Elizabeth Letts

Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital. ~ Jane Chen

The world is crammed with messages. We'll never have time to read them all. ~ Janette Turner Hospital

Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications. ~ Chris Toumazou

It's not the upfront capital that kills you, it's the operations and maintenance on the back end. ~ Gene Kim

Insecurity paralyses, makes one feel half-dead,
especially if one is already tied to the hospital bed. ~ Eleni Cay

It's nice to come back for visits. 'General Hospital' is my home. ~ Genie Francis

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government. ~ Robert Runcie

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital. ~ Billy Eckstine

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. ~ Michael Dell

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour. ~ Gabriel Lippmann

It is not the job of mathematicians ... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. ~ Samuil Shatunovsky

The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail. ~ Fred Thompson

You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients away from the rest of the world, a kind of ark that floated along full of life, but not participating in life ... These people no longer made progress. ~ Anne Spollen

I was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in a motorcade. It looked to me like a million police cars buzzing around the vehicle in which i, a woman in labor, was riding. And they all followed. Into Elmhurst Hospital and up to the delivery room. They surrounded the hospital. ~ Assata Shakur

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations. ~ Sibel Edmonds

If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution. ~ Greg Abbott

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis. ~ Scott Ritter

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations. ~ Eric Dezenhall

The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership, it would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces. ~ Barack Obama

They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change. ~ Jean Charest

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital. ~ Carrie Fisher

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another. ~ June Carter Cash

I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all. ~ George Steinbrenner

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations. ~ Frank Gaffney

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room ~ Gustave Flaubert

The Church is not merely a hospital or a halfway house to check in and out for weekend visits. ~ DeBorrah K. Ogans

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings. ~ Howard Carter

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together. ~ Evel Knievel

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter. ~ Janette Turner Hospital

Could he not go to hospital?' asks Jean-Baptiste.
The doctor flares his nostrils. 'Hospitals are very dangerous places. Particularly to one already weakened by illness. ~ Andrew Miller

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment. ~ Janette Turner Hospital

One question on hospital admittance forms really gets me. "Sex: Male or Female?" Do I want to be in a hospital where they can't tell the difference? ~ Ronnie Shakes

From outer darkness to outer darkness, a feathered meteor through a moment of light... ~ Janette Turner Hospital

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. ~ Eric Ambler

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. ~ Louis Pasteur

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. - ~ Janette Turner Hospital

'The Who' created the Daltrey/Townshend Center at UCLA for teenage hospital patients with cancer. It's the only one of its kind. ~ Nolan Sotillo

The cafeteria in the Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world - and forever it shall be - with its grim neon lights and gray tabletops and the diffuse foreboding of those who stepped away from suffering children to have a grilled cheese sandwich. ~ Aleksandar Hemon

The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. ~ Neal Barnard

I loved operations, and I loved operations far from the headquarters. I had no passion for corporate. ~ Jean-Pascal Tricoire

For 'The Trip To Bountiful,' I was worried about being too heavy, because I supposedly had just gotten out of the hospital. ~ John Heard

I like Comic-Con. It's always nice to talk to people who are fans of 'Children's Hospital.' ~ Ken Marino

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.' ~ Victor LaValle

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital. ~ Gerhard Richter

And the PRCS [Palestinian Red Crescent Society] had not lost just one hospital: thirteen clinics and nine hospitals all over Lebanon had been destroyed in this way. Only Gaza Hospital, for a reason I was to discover three years later, was still standing. At the height of the air raids, when the Palestinians found out that every single PRCS hospital and clinic was a bomb target, they put three Israeli soldiers captured in south Lebanon on the upper floors of Gaza Hospital, and radioed a message to the Israeli Army saying that any further military action on Gaza Hospital would result in Israeli lives being lost. That saved Gaza Hospital from further destruction. ~ Ang Swee Chai

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital. ~ Ryan White

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it. ~ Harvey Pekar

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. ~ Robert Benchley

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident. ~ Christopher Buckley

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program. ~ Kit Bond

Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. ~ Sun Tzu

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas. ~ Aminatta Forna

You should be able to choose which hospital you go to. ~ Andrew Lansley

When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites. ~ Virginia Postrel

I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York. ~ Victor LaValle