Affliction Quote by Alfred Adler

The patient is the one with the disease

— Samuel Shem

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

— Pierre Corneille

“Be patient in affliction.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

— Anonymous

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom....”

— Randy Pausch

“The severest affliction is the one which has never been tried.”

— Publius Syrus

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

— Milton H. Erickson

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his…

— Andrew Weil

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile,…

— Carl Jung

The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.

— Samuel James Meltzer

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

— Anonymous