Patient Quotes

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

  

  Barbara Brennan
  • Patient
  • Statement
  • Diagnosis

• Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

  

  William Osler
  • Real
  • Suffering
  • Causes

• I feel like if I cut down on my strikeouts, it would help my average. But I don't want to be too patient. I just keep the same approach as always.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Patient
  • Average
  • Strikeouts

• For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.

  

  Carl Pfeiffer
  • Health
  • Drug
  • Achieve

• Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Work
  • Patient
  • Narcotics

• We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been.

  

  George W. Merck
  • Medicine
  • Patient
  • Profits

• I have just looked to be really patient, to build my innings, have looked to play within myself.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Play
  • Patient
  • Innings

• Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

  

  Mercedes McCambridge
  • Waiting
  • Alcoholics
  • Recovering

• I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Book
  • Years
  • Needs

• In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"

  

  Carol O'Connell
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Song

• Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

  

  William Osler
  • Patient
  • Diagnosis

• The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.

  

  Plato
  • Patient
  • Consider
  • Physician

• Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Physicians

• Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Help
  • Patient
  • Physician

• Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Changing
  • Treat
  • Diseases

• Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something to the table through his or her vision that is not being provided by others - a special way of meeting needs, caring for others, treating patients, or marketing. An entrepreneur must have enormous faith. Risk-taking is critical to the development of an enterprise. You will not take risks unless you have the faith to do so.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Risk
  • Vision
  • Special

• 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

• Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.

  

  William Osler
  • Air
  • Exercise
  • Should

• Surround yourself with good people that keep you grounded, work hard, and be patient.

  

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Surround

• If you're in a commercial studio, you've got to be out by the end of the day, and it can be paralyzing, but if you have your own studio you move fast because you don't care. If you don't care, you can be patient, and also think fast.

  

  Nicolas Godin Air
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Care

• I think if the doctor is a good doctor and has a patient's best interest in mind then he's not going to allow anything to compromise that patient's care. The bottom line is the doctor has to care for his patient. You have to have that overwhelming sense of welfare for your patient.

  

  Charles Teo
  • Mind
  • Care
  • Interest

• The planetary etheric body is a whole, unbroken and continuous; of this etheric body, those of the healer and the patient are integral, intrinsic parts.

  

  Alice Bailey
  • Body
  • Patient
  • Healer

• He could wait, because hatred is patient.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Patient
  • Wait

• Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust.

  

  Sean Faris
  • Body
  • Patient

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