Best 539 quotes in «patient quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

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

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

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 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 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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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 not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

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

I'm usually a patient guy anyway.

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

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

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

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

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 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.

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.