Burton J. Hendrick Quotes

The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

Burton J. Hendrick

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

  

  Hans Fischer
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Minor

• We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Train
  • Gone
  • Obligation

• 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

• Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Children
  • Right
  • Obligation

• You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Opportunities
  • Obligation

• If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.

  

  Alveda King
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Obligation

• I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Ignore
  • Obligation

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

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Point

• I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Model
  • Patient
  • Compliment

• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Trade

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

  

  William Kamkwamba
  • Patient
  • Grew

• It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

  

  William Osler
  • People
  • Health
  • Fate

• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Obligation
  • Convinced
  • Cooperation

• Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Tree
  • Patient
  • Swaraj

• We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

  

  Plutarch
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Improvement

• Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Patient
  • Wide

• A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Ability
  • Obligation

• If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Courage
  • Afraid
  • Patient

• Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

  

  Andrew Thomas
  • Advice
  • Authority
  • Capacity

• The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Time
  • Nothing
  • Happen

• To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Learn
  • Wait
  • Sit

• The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

  

  Burton J. Hendrick
  • Patient
  • Obligation
  • Consultants