Patient Quotes - Page 19

• I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.

  Lois Lowry

  Brother, Thinking, Doctors

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• You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Charity, Pay

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• It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.

  Jim Talent

  Jobs, Doctors, Years

  "The Bain Debate: How Much Will Voters Care About Romney's Role?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 21, 2012.

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• The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

  Pauline Hanson

  Drug, Black, Experts

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

  Rumi

  Possibility, Seems, Ifs

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• But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

  Debi Thomas

  Knowing, Impressed, Olympian

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• A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

  Publilius Syrus

  Medicine, Physicians

  "Maxims".

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

  Bob McDonnell

  Thinking, Doctors, People

  "Interview with Virginia Gov. Candidate Bob McDonnell". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 28, 2009.

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• Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

  Dean Ornish

  Ideas, Curious, Recommendations

  "Sharecare Builds A Web 3.0 Bridge To Better Health" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no quarrel. 'The ultimate test of our professionalism' is how Commander McKendrick describes an unprovoked attack on a nation with no submarines, no navy and no air force, and now with no clean water and no electricity and, in many hospitals, no anaesthetic with which to amputate small limbs shredded by shrapnel. I have seen elsewhere how this is done, with a gag in the patient's mouth.

  John Pilger

  Usa, Iraq, Air

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• Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Waiting, Gout, Disease

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• He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.107

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• But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

  Andrew Tobias

  Successful, Winning, Self

  "'I Have to Take a Call from My Russian Broker': Andrew Tobias Talks About His 'Vast Fortune'". Interview with Deborah Stead, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 1997.

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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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• The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

  Abraham Verghese

  Physicians, Reform, Care

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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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• A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Communication, Practice, Listening

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