Patient Quotes - page 18

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself. (Jerry Kramer)
I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform. View quote
Jim McDermott
I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat. View quote
John Barrasso
My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son. View quote
John Slattery
Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers. View quote
Jacqueline Novogratz
Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the while. View quote
Julia Quinn
I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid. View quote
Kim Alexis
'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it! View quote
Kristin Scott Thomas
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. View quote
Kristin Scott Thomas
Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen. View quote
Lara St. John
When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging. (Lynda Resnick)
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help. View quote
Marion Ross
Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care. View quote
Ami Bera
I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I've gotten to the next scene, I'll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path. View quote
Anders Holm
In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells. View quote
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
I think 'Red Band Society' is unique because not only is it focusing on a pediatric ward, but it's from the view from the patient, not from the view of the doctors. So we're getting to see a whole other side of hospitals and medical series life that we haven't been able to see before. View quote
Ciara Bravo
The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick. View quote
Daniel Kraft
We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient. View quote
Isaiah Thomas
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. View quote
Jane Harrison
Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand. View quote
John Cameron
One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to me to do anything other than put the patient at the center. I developed a clinical system at a time when the health care world had pretty much only billing and lab systems available. (Judith Faulkner)
I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients. View quote
Lauren Worsham
My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene. View quote
Merry Clayton
If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that. View quote
Michael East
I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not! View quote
Olivia Colman