patient safety quotes

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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

Florence Nightingale

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

Hippocrates