Intensive Care Unit Quotes

• The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Lying, Reality, Justice

  "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2009.

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• This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

  Atul Gawande

  Reality, Care, Harm

  Atul Gawande (2010). “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units.

  Margaret Chan

  Europe, Toxic, Needs

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• As a physician, I see the earth as a patient in the intensive care unit. We have an acute clinical crisis on our hands and must take urgent action. My prescription for survival is that the American people rise up as they did in the 1980s, when 80 percent of Americans supported the nuclear weapons freeze.

  Helen Caldicott

  Hands, People, Survival

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• Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was over on the dresser, pounding, and I was watching it. I asked some of the doctors who drifted through the intensive-care unit what kind of effect total cocaine abuse has on the heart and they said things like, "Well, there's not enough valid information...." That kind of answer.

  George Carlin

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.

  Thomas Harris

  Eye, Watches, Movement

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.434, Penguin

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• I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.

  Glen Mazzara

  Summer, Jobs, Nyu

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