Last Patient of the Night Quotes

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― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“healthcare administrative costs.” This drew a murmur of dismay from the crowd. “Administrative costs are now thirty-four percent of all healthcare costs. One out of three dollars is spent on administrators. Every hospital has an entire floor of thirty- something MBAs who are Vice President of this or that. Most of them don’t know anything about medicine, yet they make the important decisions”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“The Delgado pool is open. You can only enter once. Closest guess to blood alcohol level without going over wins bragging rights. Price is Right rules!”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“Better to have a gun and never need it than to need a gun and not have it.”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“orthopedist.”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“stays”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“burning”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“I”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“idea.”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“The staggering increase in health care costs over the last thirty years is not due to increased wages for health care workers, which have remained relatively static when adjusted for inflation. The increase has come from hospital administration and from profits to pharmaceutical and insurance companies. The system is not sustainable on its current path.”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“So, what does HUHA mean?” “Head up his ass. We use it to describe hospital administrators who pretty much fuck up everything they touch around here. Lou is a major HUHA.” Mike laughed.”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“The sorceress stared at us, ready to cast her spell.”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“firm believer that friendship is based on quality of time, not quantity.”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“I smiled back at him. “I know them because I read, Tom. Authors fill books with information, and when you read them, you get smarter. You wouldn’t know that because you think books are for coloring.”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“Humor was the number one coping mechanism in the ER. If we could find a way to smile and laugh after witnessing so much pain and suffering, we knew we could handle the stress and trauma that confronted us every day. When one lost the ability to laugh, it was time to leave the ER.”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night

“The body’s desire to breathe is not based on a lack of oxygen but on a buildup of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream.”
― Gary Gerlacher, Last Patient of the Night