Barbara Brennan Quotes

An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.

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

  

  Hans Fischer
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Minor

• I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Character
  • Professional
  • Actor

• My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Mood

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• 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

• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • Be Patient

• I've never felt the breath of God – you can take that statement literally or metaphorically – more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Connection
  • Intimate

• 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

• It is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Americans
  • Statement

• The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn't that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Life
  • Spirit
  • Bible

• I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Point

• The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Children
  • Burden
  • Memorable

• I warmly welcome the statement ... that the Kosovo Liberation Army has complied with its commitment to demilitarize.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Commitment
  • Welcome
  • Statement

• In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Tense

• 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

• One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

  

  William Kamkwamba
  • Patient
  • Grew

• If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded research like I have, if I've raised millions of dollars like I have, and yet there was one patient out there who was unhappy, I think it's a price that you pay. The good would overcome that one bit of bad.

  

  Charles Teo
  • Done
  • Brain
  • Overcoming

• [Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Attitude
  • Teaching
  • Patient

• Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Working
  • Falling In Love
  • Saving Private Ryan

• For societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember.

  

  Nayantara Sahgal
  • Forget
  • Built
  • Societies

• An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.

  

  Barbara Brennan
  • Patient
  • Statement
  • Diagnosis