Average Quote by Anonymous

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

— Jerome Groopman

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.

— William C. Brown

For patients to be safe, we need doctors to be able to reflect completely openly and freely about what they have done, to learn…

— Jeremy Hunt

There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a…

— Jed Mercurio

I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only…

— Hannah More

“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left…

— Sarah Schulman

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire…

— Bernie Siegel

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

“Patients, when hearing the news, mostly remain mute. (One of the early meanings of patient, after all, is “one who endures hardship without complaint.”)”

— Paul Kalanithi

“As the Readers’s Digest once said: ‘Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.”

— Dale Carnegie

“My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I don't think you can be a physician and not see yourself reflected in your patient's illness. How would I deal with the kind…

— Abraham Verghese