Hippocrates
Physician
"Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity."
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Clara Barton
Nurse, Activist
"You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."
Clara Barton
Nurse, Activist
"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."
Clara Barton
Nurse, Activist
"It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind."
Clara Barton
Nurse, Activist
"The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me."
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"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past."
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"Caring is the essence of nursing."
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"In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead."
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"Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy."
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"Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient."
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"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."
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"God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church."
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"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food"
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"As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel."
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"Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference."
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"It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom."
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"There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes."
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"You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome."
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"For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman."
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"Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude."
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"Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her."
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"Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted."
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"I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure."
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"The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary"
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"A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide."
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