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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  Abraham Verghese

  Years, Medicine, Suffering

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• What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

  Abraham Verghese

  School, Sight, Empathy

  "'Literature about medicine may be all that can save us'" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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• Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'

  Jeremy Grantham

  Intelligent, Reality, Clients

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• The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Doctors, Government, Obamacare

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• My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

  Billy Joe Saunders

  Trainers, Frank, Promoters

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• The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Waiting, Intellectual, Christianity

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• Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

  William Shakespeare

  Be Patient, Authority, Wells

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.25

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• The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Diagnosis, Blame

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• It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.

  Abu Bakr

  Islamic, Rewards, Waste

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• Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

  Francis Bacon

  Strong, Science, Doctors

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• I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.

  Robert Boyle

  Recovery, Exercise, Science

  Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter (1996). “Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo's supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy .

  John Diamond

  Strong, Lying, Cancer

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• Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Health, Eye, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

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• A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

  Publilius Syrus

  Medicine, Physicians

  "Maxims".

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• The doctor says to the patient, "Take your clothes off and stick your tongue out the window". "What will that do" asks the patient. The doctor says "I'm mad at my neighbor!".

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Clothes

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• I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Mind, Way

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• There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

  Mark Twain

  Waiting, Purpose, Strange

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doctors, Belief, Reason

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

  May Sarton

  Patience, Art, Modest

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Enemy, Vices

  John Dryden (1850). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.123

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• Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

  Alfred Adler

  Would Be, Affliction, Firsts

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• There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Regret, Tired, Thinking

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• 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.

  Oliver Sacks

  Health, Delight, Painting

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