Patient Quotes
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I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
Javier Perez de Cuellar -
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.
Karl Abraham
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Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
Ellie Goulding -
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
William Osler -
There were about seven guys that stayed in the 70s and were real patient throughout the whole day.
Garry Moore -
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
William Osler -
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
Virginia Postrel -
Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
William Shakespeare
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Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith.
Umar -
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
Walker Percy -
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 -
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
Abraham Verghese -
The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.
Elaine Chao -
Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
Abbas Kiarostami
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler -
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 -
I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.
Sharon Stone -
Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.
Wilfred Bion -
Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.
Anthony Atala -
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
William Osler
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To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.
Jesse Livermore -
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.
Samuel Hahnemann -
Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
William Osler -
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
William Stewart Halsted