Ability Quote by Bernie Siegel

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the…

— Abraham Verghese

“Patient isn’t exactly a word in my vocabulary”

— Cherise Sinclair

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

— Aeschylus

We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

— Jill Biden

“Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve been taught…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and…

— Walker Percy

“Learning medicine consists in part of learning the language of medicine. A deeper understanding of judgments and choices also requires a richer vocabulary than…

— Daniel Kahneman

Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform…

— Ann Richards

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but…

— Shirley Jackson

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

— Eric Hoffer

“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.”

— Aeschylus

The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is…

— Anonymous