Patient Quotes - page 4

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. (Phillips Brooks)
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. View quote
Abraham Verghese
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient. View quote
Michael E. Porter
Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service. View quote
Michael E. Porter
Shamanism is a great metal and emotional adventure, one in which the patient as well as the shaman-healer are involved. View quote
Michael Harner
Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew. View quote
Markus Zusak
In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient. View quote
Mehmet Oz
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. View quote
Mehmet Oz
You can't be patient if you're not strong. View quote
Nick Bollettieri
Marshmallows are kind of weird. I'm not a huge fan. I mean, they're fun when they get molten and melty at the end of a stick, but I always burn my mouth because I'm not all that smart or patient. View quote
Paul G. Tremblay
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. (Hans Eysenck)
Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand. (Takeshi) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient. View quote
Barbara Brennan
The long-term benefit of homeopathy to the patient is that it not only alleviates the presenting symptoms but it reestablishes internal order at the deepest levels and thereby provides a lasting cure. View quote
George Vithoulkas
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened. View quote
Giles Foden
Beware the anger of a patient man. View quote
James Patterson
I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope. View quote
Jerome Groopman
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. View quote
Karl Abraham
Don't let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn't. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going. View quote
Atul Gawande
If you are patient... and wait long enough... Nothing will happen. View quote
Jim Davis
Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr. (Leila Aboulela)
The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers. View quote
Maryam Mirzakhani
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. View quote
Emmeline Pankhurst
If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient. View quote
Patty Duke
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. View quote
Chuck Schumer