William James Quotes

An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

William James

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• I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Information
  • Patient
  • Protected

• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Two
  • Doctors
  • Leg

• In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.

  

  Hans Fischer
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Minor

• Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Patient
  • Tests

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• Keep your head up and be patient.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Head
  • Patient

• If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Time
  • Help
  • Doctors

• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • Be Patient

• Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Medical
  • Doctors

• Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Stories
  • Successful
  • Effect

• If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Science
  • Christian

• I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Read

• If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors should do everything they can to reduce pain, but not to administer drugs to end life, I think we go over a line then.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said, "Let me take a look at him. Shane?" "I'm not dropping my pants," Shane said. "I just thought I'd say that up front.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Nice

• One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • History
  • Attention

• When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Effort
  • Performance

• The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents believe this to have been caused by a food allergy and resolve to take him to the doctor later.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • School
  • Parents

• Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

  

  Sara Willis
  • Giving
  • Advice
  • Doctors

• Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Research
  • Disease
  • Doctors

• Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

  

  William Penn
  • Hands
  • Ability
  • Clean

• The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.

  

  William Ames
  • Doe
  • Eternal
  • Cease

• There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • People
  • Country
  • Problem

• An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

  

  William James
  • Patient
  • Doctors
  • Enormous