Welcome to Emergency Room Quotes, where we delve into the profound, humorous, and sometimes harrowing experiences shared by those who have worked in or been treated in emergency rooms. The emergency room is a unique environment, often serving as the frontline of medical care, where healthcare professionals encounter a diverse array of situations on a daily basis. Within these walls, tales of resilience, compassion, and the human spirit unfold amidst the chaos of urgency and the pursuit of saving lives.
Whether it’s a doctor recounting a poignant moment of connection with a patient, a nurse reflecting on the challenges and triumphs of their demanding profession, or a patient sharing their perspective on navigating moments of crisis, the emergency room is a rich tapestry of stories waiting to be told. Here, we gather a collection of quotes that capture the essence of these experiences, offering insight into the intensity, humanity, and often unexpected humor found within the ER. Explore these quotes to gain a glimpse into the world of emergency medicine and the remarkable individuals who inhabit it. Below, you’ll find a selection of quotes to inspire, provoke thought, and perhaps even bring a smile to your face as you discover the diverse voices that make up the fabric of emergency room life.
Youth and health are supposed to go hand in hand. And it was only when I got to a point where I was so weak, it was a struggle to walk up and down the stairs that I found myself in an emergency room. And within 24 hours I was on a plane back home to upstate New York, and I got the bone marrow biopsy that led to my actual diagnosis. Suleika Jaouad
It wasn’t until I was injured at the gym – resulting in an emergency room visit and bill of $4,000 – that I realized the cost of forgoing health insurance. I was fine, but it took me more than a year to pay off that bill. That hurt worse than the injury itself. Sharice Davids
I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don’t care if you got kids or if you are married. You got to find that one place that is your everybody-off-limit place: unless this place is on fire, or you need to go to the emergency room, don’t disturb me. You can go to this place and cleanse, meditate, let God speak to you. Roland Martin
The Sekrets record is very much me, and Dan’s Emergency Room is very much him. And then Alkaline Trio is very much ours. Matt Skiba
Let’s not kid ourselves about just how cheap offshore labor really is. We not only pay substantially less per hour: we also avoid the costs we would incur if these workers immigrated here. We don’t pay for their medical expenses when they show up in the emergency room without insurance. Edward Conard
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. Brad Henry
I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, ‘Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.’ Mary Roach
Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can’t afford coverage or their insurance doesn’t cover enough of the costs. The lack of preventive care results in countless emergency room visits and health care disasters for families. Jeff Merkley
Look, if you have somebody who doesn’t have health insurance, who doesn’t have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room – in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center. Bernie Sanders
Care shouldn’t start in the emergency room. James Douglas
My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we’ll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room – they can have their own health care plan. Tim Walberg
Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room. Tim Murphy
There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That’s when you want to be noticed, because it’s very easy to get forgotten in an ER. Bill Murray
There are always going to be hospital dramas because if you’re sitting in an emergency room for two hours, I guarantee you you are going to see something that makes you gasp. That’s where drama comes from. Rocky Carroll
There’s two systems of health care: the one for the rich that’s really good, then there’s the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead. Fat Joe
The traditional way that society looks at healthcare is to let people get terribly sick and then have an emergency room to take care of them and spend a lot of money on acute care for people who would have been kept out of hospital in the first place if they had had a lifestyle change. Frans van Houten
When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term ‘brain tumour’, I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me. Leander Paes
Among the most common reasons why people come to an emergency room are bouts of heart failure or pneumonia. Sometimes they have a touch of both. Scott Gottlieb
You only think about things when you see people doing it. Most girls know now they can be lawyers. They know that they can work in an emergency room – they’ve seen ‘ER.’ But I don’t recall that anyone has seen scientists on a large scale, except for a few paleontologists in ‘Jurassic Park.’ Judith Love Cohen
I wasn’t afraid of treating Ebola patients in the isolation unit. That was the safest job. But seeing patients in the clinic, seeing patients in the emergency room, being in the community – those things gave me pause. Kent Brantly
If you’re not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. David Lehman
I’ve been in the emergency room for food poisoning. Jessica St. Clair
I was kind of the comic relief in my household. We had a chronic illness in the family. And so, a lot of emergency room visits, and my role was to be silly and add levity, and we’re Jewish. So every Passover is a performance. You kind of learn to role play and do voices at the Passover Seder. Alex Borstein
The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room. Bun E. Carlos
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too. Anna Quindlen
I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67. Gerald Griffin
As the son of a retired emergency room nurse, I know how critical it is for a community to have access to immediate care. John Bel Edwards
When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn’t go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks. Rich Lowry
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. Jan Schakowsky
If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you’ve had a stroke, or you’ve had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn’t have a stroke and cut down the costs. Corrine Brown