Patient Quotes - Page 3

• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

  Carl Levin

  Mistake, Damage Is Done, Medical

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• Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

  Thelma Drake

  Development, Good Things, Passengers

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• We wait for the tortoises to come.  We wait for that lady who walks them.  That’s how art works.  It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse.  It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets.  We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.

  Pat Conroy

  Art, Waiting, Secret

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• So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Doctors, Abortion, Republican

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• Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

  Samuel Smiles

  Marriage, Government, Giving

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• I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly towards a world federation of peaceful nations. How will this be possible? Don't ask me. I don't know. But unless we develop a moral, spiritual, and political wisdom that is proportionate to our technological skill, our skill may end us.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Peace

  Thomas Merton (1995). “Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Years, Play, Knowing

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• We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

  Abraham Verghese

  Average, Physicians, Healthcare

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• Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

  Erving Goffman

  Meaningful, Groups, Pilots

  Erving Goffman (2017). “Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates”, p.17, Routledge

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• The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Reading, Book, Knowing

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• The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

  William Stewart Halsted

  Science, Medicine, Weapons

  Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 23: 191 (1912)

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• The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

  Shannon Hale

  Patience, Halloween, Dressing Up

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Midnight in Austenland: A Novel”, p.103, A&C Black

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• Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Long, Goal, Laughing

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• Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

  Hippocrates

  Inspiring, Food, Ayurveda

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• I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Wise, Easy, Redress

  Elizabeth Montagu, Emily J. Climenson (2011). “Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Writing, Reality, Earthquakes

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• Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.

  Linus Pauling

  Drug, Training, Vitamins

  Linus Pauling (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”

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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

  Khalil Gibran

  Doubt, Be Patient, Born

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Healing, Mean, Imperfection

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• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

  Jack Vance

  Challenges, Deception, Fleeting

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• Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cutting, Winning, Medicine

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• The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Shooting, World

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.1, New Riders

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• When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

  Josh Gates

  Important, Hospitals

  Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

  Carlos Slim

  Yield, Optimism, Rewards

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