Patient Quotes - Page 17

• The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

  Richard Rohr

  Levels, Satisfaction, Closure

  "Preparing for Christmas" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.'
  
  'Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?'
  
  'Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.

  Brandon Stanton

  Growing Up, Mean, Cutting

  Brandon Stanton (2013). “Humans of New York”, p.290, St. Martin's Press

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• The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

  Plato

  Physicians

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• Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

  Bernard Berenson

  Believe, Mind, Intestines

  Quoted by Umberto Morra in Conversations with Berenson 8 February (1931)

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• The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented fact.

  Nancy Northup

  Religious, Abortion, Hospitals

  "New Bill Would Allow Religious Hospitals to Deny Life-Saving Emergency Care" by Nancy Northup, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2011.

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• Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

  Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

  Men, Pneumonia, Medical

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• The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

  Ivan Illich

  Doctors, Long, Physicians

  Medical Nemesis

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• Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

  Jeremy Collier

  Patience, Waiting, Way

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• They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

  Hans Eysenck

  Mean, Years, Two

  Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Glenn Daniel Wilson (1973). “The experimental study of Freudian theories”, Methuen Publishing

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

  Marcia Angell

  Illness And Death, Approach, Determine

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• In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Years, Religion

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• The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

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• The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

  Walker Percy

  Loss, Identity, Age

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Crush, Dust, Long

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2017). “The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life”, p.179, B&H Publishing Group

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• First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.

  Sun Simiao

  Health, Medicine, Chinese

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• When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

  Gore Vidal

  Moving, Presidential, Viruses

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Exercise, Punishment, Rewards

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.91, Psychology Press

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• While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Health, Ego

  "Alchemical studies".

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• The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

  Vernon Howard

  Healing, Health, Yield

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, Doctors, People

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• Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

  Thomas Szasz

  Self, Gains, Succeed

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• Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

  Norman Cousins

  Essentials, Disease, Panic

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• Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Adults, Study, Language

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Bridges, Numbers

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• Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

  Bruce Catton

  Understanding, Saws, Revolutionary

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

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