I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something…

— Tony Robbins

Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and…

— Marcia Angell

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions…

— Bob Barr

Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are…

— Hippocrates

From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom,…

— Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

For me, I think that there's a lot missing from the recovery or the post-diagnosis side of treating patients. Once the diagnosis is made,…

— Susannah Cahalan

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain about having…

— Karen Horney

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor…

— Jason Epstein

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from…

— Andrew Lansley

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those…

— Antonio Damasio

When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's…

— Ron Wyden

Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure…

— Andrew Lansley

Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity…

— Daniel D. Palmer