Caring Hearts Gifts

The Children's Hospital

'Don't worry. It's never too hot or never too cold.'

Medical personnel give their hearts

'You are a very good nurse. You're actually listening to what I'm saying.'

'It's not easy being fabulous and caretaking.'

"The patient in 12-C needs comforting."

"Don't worry, darling. You'll happen."

"I don't leave home without it!"

"Rescue someone; rescue yourself"

"Tia Carmen, if times are tough, how come you're giving money away?"

Get well soon!

Hospital.

"I know you're always taking care of everyone else, but you need to take care of yourself, too. Also, I need my stethoscope back."

"Peace. Love. Adopt."

One tends to the sick. The other manages a large estate. Interestingly, a caregiver and a caretaker are not on opposite sides of an interaction.

NHS recruitment.

"Any improvement since I brought the balloon?"

'A willingness to sacrifice yourself to bring 'peace and succor to the suffering' is all very well Mother Theresa but I don't think it makes up for your lack of knowledge of current hand sanitisation protocols.'

'Sorry, shortage of staff.'

"It's our latest targets...We have to do twice as much with half the stuff in a quarter of the time!"

It's the thought that counts!

'Could you wear a Dr. Phil mask?'

"On the other hand, his bedside manner is impeccable."

"John says you've all been compassionate and caring! Would you please stop... or he'll expect that at home!"

The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale

'Sometimes patients become a little attached.'

'Underpaid, overworked, stressed and sick of criticism...still enough of my problems do you still need the toilet?'

"It's the worst part of working here...spending so much time with people at the end of their tether, ill, stressed, desperate for help..."

"He had a full two weeks."

Humanitarian Medical Work

The Good Samaritan Arrives at the Inn (The Holy Bible).

'We're to spend more time engaging with patients on a more compassionate 'human' level...and here are the guidelines on how to do it!'

"You've got a lousy bedside manner"

I'm afraid nurse Wilcox can't have a supportive caring chat with you until she's had the appropriate training.

Good Samaritan responding to hurt man: 'I'm part of God's TLC plan.'