Best 539 quotes in «patient quotes» category

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

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

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!

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

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'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 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.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

I'm usually a patient guy anyway.

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

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'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.