Medical Student Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever…

— Laura Mullen

My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.

— Brian Selznick

In 1990, one in 10 children died before the age of five. That's now down to one in 20, and vaccines were the single…

— Bill Gates

“One room in the hospital had not been cleaned up. No one, not even the nuns, had had the courage to enter the obstetric…

— Richard Preston

In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly…

— Sam Kean

“Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late nineteenth century, dying at a hospital was reserved…

— Caitlin Doughty

Hospitals are often grim places: being stuck on a ward is excruciatingly boring, especially when you're too ill to follow the plot of a…

— Dawn Foster

If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same…

— Petrarch

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

— Anthony Fauci

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

— Ann Radcliffe

“The fever” was (as it usually is in Manchester) of a low, putrid, typhoid kind; brought on by miserable living, filthy neighbourhood, and great…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“They said 'specialist children's wards,' But they meant children-killing centers. They said 'final medical assistance' But they meant murder.”

— Ann Clare LeZotte