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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

I normally hate books that have anything to do with medicine, thanks to my own background in nursing - FYI, almost everybody gets it wrong.

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.