Best 539 quotes in «patient quotes» category

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 really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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

Life consists of two days: one for you and one against you, so when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.

Marijuana is beneficial to many patients