Patient Quotes
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the examination of fully developed species;-But to obtain an insight into the laws of development,-the signification or bedeutung, of the parts of an animal body demands a patient examination of the successive stages of their development, in every group of Animals.
Richard Owen
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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
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I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
Walt Disney
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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
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People are starting to reflect upon the power of emotions on illness and I have always felt a direct connection between emotion and body. It is fascinating that neurologists are starting to tell their patients that yes, they are sick, the symptoms are there, but it is probably happening because an emotion is not coming out the way it could and should.
Caroline Dhavernas
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The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.
Kate Simon
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Big, obedient, patient Clydesdales. I loved them.
R. M. Williams
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The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.
Elaine Chao
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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
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I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.
Zac Brown Band
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
Hippocrates
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The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
William Stewart Halsted
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When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.
Chris Prentiss
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A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
Abraham Flexner
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He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
William Gurnall
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We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.
Shirley Chisholm
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The patient must minister to himself
William Shakespeare
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There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.
Scott Adams
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The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.
Jesse Livermore
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At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.
Sigmund Freud
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It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.
Tom Frieden