Addiction Quote by Amy Reed

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease…

— Susanna Kaysen

“Inasmuch as a great part of what doctors know is taught them by the sick, they are easily led to believe that this knowledge…

— Marcel Proust

“Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”

— Sarah Ballantyne

“It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.”

— William Osler

Patients know what patients want to know.

— Dave deBronkart

“Don’t tell me you’re one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It’s disheartening.”

— John Green

“When you have the means and information to cure a disease and don't . . . you are the disease.”

— Richard Diaz

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than…

— Thomas Carlyle

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two…

— Hippocrates

“I believe that we will never quite understand the wonderful disease that is the human condition. We can only hope that perhaps as we…

— Preston K. Bullard

“When the doctors came in a little while later saying they thought they knew my diagnosis, I was afraid to know.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

“They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self-actualized.”

— John Green