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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Creation
  • Obligation

• I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Age
  • Thoughts
  • Clever

• My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Home
  • Running
  • Wife

• There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Simple
  • Spiritual
  • Obligation

• Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Treachery
  • Brutes
  • Brutus

• Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... the instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

  

  Charles Lapworth
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Science

• If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Enough

• Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.

  

  Nathan Pritikin
  • Diets
  • Protein
  • Calories

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

  

  Burton J. Hendrick
  • Patient
  • Obligation
  • Consultants