Patients Quotes
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Patients Quotes & Sayings
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Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
— William Osler
Patients know what patients want to know.
— Dave DeBronkart
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
— Richard Dawkins
Patients have the right to help themselves.
— James Heywood
Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge.
— Rebecca Skloot
there's that study that says doctors do a worse job prognosticating for patients they're personally invested in.
— Paul Kalanithi
HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
— Alex Berenson
when evoking personal recollections, patients with depersonalization often complain that memories feel as if they really didn't happen to them
— Mauricio Sierra
Let's not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts.
— Vikrmn
Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway.
— Irvin D. Yalom
The patients on Tuke Ward were a pleasant and tractable bunch and practised insanity with a certain elan.
— Bill Bryson
We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.
— Greg Anderson
for it is precisely the humanity, affability, and brotherly compassion of a doctor which prove the most efficacious remedies for his patients.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.
— Norman Doidge
Sometimes patients may report traumatic memories of events that they have not actually experienced themselves. Van der Hart and Van der Velden (1995)
— Onno Van Der Hart
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
— Virginia Postrel
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
— Stanislav Grof
It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.
— Cornelius Van Til
The job of doctors is to supply up-to-date knowledge and skills. The job of patients is to supply the decisions.
— Atul Gawande
Writers without readers is like a doctor without patients.
— Britt Holewinski
Other doctors lose as many patients as I do, he would say. But with me they die happier.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients' hearts.
— Gayle Forman
We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
— Henri Nouwen
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
— Aristotle.
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
— Karl Abraham
Perhaps you should spend less time despising the game and more time building the patients necessary to win.
— Renee Ahdieh
The great thing about treating borderline patients is that it is like having a supervisor always in the room.
— Marsha M. Linehan
Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
— Virginia Postrel
Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Patients and clients are sometimes hard to be understood!
— Deyth Banger
It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.
— Barry Marshall
Key message to all patients: Let go of all negativity and empower your body through your positivity.
— Widad Akreyi
If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.
— Joseph J. Ellis
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
— Abraham Verghese
Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ...
— Terry Pratchett
Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.
— Nelson DeMille
Thou Shalt Not Mack on Your Patients
— J.R. Ward
Egyptian papyri mention temple attendants who cleansed patients and implemented regimes of diet and exercise.
— Steve Parker
Every cent that goes to research is changing the lives of patients and their families right now.
— Robert Pattinson
The door is always open. You don't think I'd stay locked up in here with a load of mental patients, do you?
— Paulo Coelho
I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.
— Larry Bucshon
My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.
— Herman Boerhaave
To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention.
— Lionel Shriver
Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.
— Anurag Shourie
Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.
— Leston Havens
Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, lie low, go slow, and keep cool.
— Rudyard Kipling
I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.
— Robert Jarvik
Why indeed should we perpetually be thinking whether things are good for us, as if we were patients lying in a hospital?
— Henry James
Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.
— Steve Gleason
Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
— Harmon Killebrew
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
— William Osler
The overarching goal of occupation therapy is simple: Help patients live life to the fullest.
— Holly Goodman
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
— Michel Onfray
IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.
— Shinya Yamanaka
How poor are they that have have not patients.
— William Shakespeare
...younger patients, known as 'Acutes' because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed...
— Ken Kesey
Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.
— Sherry Stringfield
I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.
— John Malkovich
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
— Robert Benchley
Patients who spend fifteen minutes every day writing an account of their daily troubles feel indeed better about what has befallen them. You
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all
— William Osler
A tureen of tragedy was best allotted by the spoonful. Only a few patients demanded the whole at once; most needed time to digest.
— Paul Kalanithi
When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right." Harris
— Abraham Verghese
He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
— Irvin D. Yalom
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
— Ben Carson
Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
— Dale Carnegie
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
— Irving Kirsch
A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.
— Walter Lippmann
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
— Larry Dossey
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.
— Ben Goldacre
To record merely patients' symptoms without considering their subjective and cultural experiences should never be the basis for diagnosis.
— Man Cheung Chung
Death represented a failure of the medical system; it would not be permitted to upset the patients or their families.
— Caitlin Doughty
