#emergency

Wash: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Mal: Define "interesting". Wash: "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? Mal [on speakerphone]: This is the captain: we have a little problem with our entry sequence so we may experience some slight turbulence, then explode. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#firefly #humour #experience

As usual I was working the graveyard shift—an irony I reveled in—at an emergency call center. What other shift would a vampire feel comfortable working? ↗

— Patois

#graveyard-shift #irony #vampire #food

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#act #any #be prepared #emergency #himself

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#addition #average #billion #california #emergency

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. ↗

— David Lehman

#emergency room #health #pay #paying #plan

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay. ↗

— Gary Miller

#citizenship #door #emergency #hospitals #must

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs. ↗

— Gary Miller

#already #another #area #border #care

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

#emergency #emergency room #form #great #into

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#aid #campaign #care #countries #distracted