Best 539 quotes in «patient quotes» category

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won't get you in one shot. He'll come at you and he'll put a little bit and a little bit and a little bit until he destroys your character.

he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

I am patient with my needs, kind with my words, and respectful of my soft places.

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

I am patient and loving with my fearful thoughts. Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you'll see them dissolve.

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

I feel like, if it's supposed to happen, then it'll happen. God will send me somebody special, whenever the timing is right, so I'm just patient.

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

I'll work on patient's thoughts about sleep, "So I must get eight hours of sleep tonight or I won't sleep tomorrow." That sometimes - or "I won't function tomorrow." That sometimes makes it very difficult for you to sleep at night

I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.

I'm usually a patient guy anyway.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.

In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.

In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.