Best 539 quotes in «patient quotes» category

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 a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient 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.

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

I think that being a mom has made me a better person. I'm much more patient and much more chill than I was before.

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

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.

It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

It’s certainly true that it’s easier to be patient about change when you’re not personally suffering...

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

It only cost Mitt Romney $76.6 million to defeat a serial adulterer and a mental patient in a sweater vest.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

It's important to relax and not put too much pressure on oneself, players must be patient when striving to improve.

I urge everyone to be patient and reasonable and I warn against shooting from the hip in the truest sense of the term. Pressure and dialogue are needed.

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.

I've been at stand-up 26 years now: After a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

I've always told my son Scott the same thing: Don't rush into anything, because there's gonna be a lot of fish in the sea. You can be one of the people that's lucky enough not to become a loser two and three and four times over like people do, just by being a little more patient.

I've learned to be patient. When I was younger I rushed things a lot. I tried to attack the game. Now I get teammates more involved before I try to take over.

I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.