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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• Como médico, veo la Tierra como un paciente en la unidad de cuidados intensivos. Tenemos entre manos una crisis clínica aguda y debemos tomar medidas urgentes. Mi receta para sobrevivir es que el pueblo estadounidense se levante como lo hizo en la década de 1980, cuando el 80% de los estadounidenses apoyó la congelación de las armas nucleares.

  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

  Movimiento, Corazón, Pensamiento

  Fuente: 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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