24 hours Quote by Leana S. Wen

In the days when we had paper charts, typically the paper chart would be in the door outside of the patient's room. Well now…

— William Davis

When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have…

— Chris Toumazou

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

— Evel Knievel

Any patient who has a serious illness requiring multiple doctors understands the frustration of lost medical charts, repeated procedures, or having to share the…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“One study had four doctors interpret fifty different tracings (the printouts generated by the monitor). The four concurred only 22 percent of the time.”

— Armin A. Brott

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see…

— Abraham Verghese

If you have 15 minutes per visit, and you spend the first 9 minutes just collecting information from them, before you do anything else,…

— William Davis

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer…

— Abraham Verghese

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

— Timothy Murphy

When a hospital is very crowded, there will be a real push to make sure people get their X-rays, get their tests and, you…

— Leo Varadkar