Emergency Quotes - page 2

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event. (Felix Baumgartner)
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. View quote
Wendell Berry
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency. View quote
Bryce Courtenay
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care. View quote
Andrew Lansley
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis. View quote
Brad Henry
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great. View quote
Chris Chocola
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. (Chris Hadfield)
Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich. View quote
Caroline Paul
If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. View quote
David Lehman
We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans. View quote
Ellen Tauscher
In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. View quote
Elton Gallegly
The president recognizes that funding global health is good for national security, domestic health and global diplomacy. Consequently, President Obama has steadily increased funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which was created by President Bush and has strong bipartisan support. View quote
Ezekiel Emanuel
When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work. View quote
Glen Mazzara
Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs. View quote
Gary Miller
Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently. View quote
James Wolfensohn
Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room. View quote
Jan Schakowsky
When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition. (Jeff Raikes)
What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork. View quote
Joe Lhota
Care shouldn't start in the emergency room. View quote
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas
The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan. View quote
Mark Shields
Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends. View quote
Merv Griffin