Patient Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.

  William Osler

  Special, Cheerful, Looks

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• The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.

  Arnold Palmer

  Heart, Bad Day, Golf

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• 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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• Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Be Patient, Thyself

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.312, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Advice, Birth, Sunscreen

  Song: Everybody's Free

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• Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Psychology, Understanding, Technique

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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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• 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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• 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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• Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.

  William Osler

  Exercise, Air, Should Have

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 3

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• Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dark, Night, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122

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• This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Knitting, Long

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• Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Inspirational, Hurt, Love Is

  Lurlene McDaniel (2013). “No Time to Cry: The Dawn Rochelle Series, Book Four”, p.49, Darby Creek

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• Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

  Michael Chandler

  Hard Work, Mma, Pay

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• All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

  Arthur Bryant

  Race, People, Common Sense

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• Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Example, Citizens, Becoming

  "Palin target renounces care rationing" by Jon Ward, www.washingtontimes.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Cutting, Thinking, Doctors

  "Deadly Doctors" by Betsy McCaughey, nypost.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Creation is quite impressionable. Everyone leaves a trail of their actions. And everyone, however wise, however powerful, however immortal, makes mistakes. All it requires is the patience to wait for them. And you'll find no one, in all Creation, quite so patient as Death.

  Ari Marmell

  Wise, Powerful, Mistake

  Ari Marmell (2012). “Darksiders: The Abomination Vault”, p.351, Del Rey

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• The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Laziness, May, Disease

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• In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a single chemotherapy, (2) multiple chemotherapy, and (3) no treatment at all. No treatment 'proved a significantly better policy for patients' survival and for quality of remaining life.'

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Survival, Quality

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• Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

  Craig Stone

  Children, Sleep, Broken

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• Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

  Bill Vaughan

  Distance, Mean, Reality

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• Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, Cost

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• For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.

  Michael Lind

  Christian, War, Alternatives

  Michael Lind (2013). “Vietnam: The Necessary War”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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