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By Florence Nightingale
Unnecessary noise, or noise that creates an expectation in the mind, is that which hurts a patient.
- Source
- Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, 1860 · Chapter IV (Noise)
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- Harrison, London (Project Gutenberg text, eBook #17366)
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From Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (London: Harrison, 1860), Chapter IV (Noise). The opening sentence of her chapter on noise. She goes on to say it is rarely the loudness that harms the sick.