Patient Quotes

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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. — Robert Benchley
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put… — Anna Benson
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition.… — Alfred Adler
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. — Alfred Adler
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility… — Alfred Adler
Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete… — Donald Berwick
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human… — Nellie Bly
Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might… — Jo Brand
For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people,… — Geraldine Brooks
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. — Phillips Brooks
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl… — Tom Brown, Jr.
I'm not the most patient of people. — Kobe Bryant
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or… — Lois Capps
I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I… — Kim Alexis
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society. — Benjamin Carson
The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost. — Benjamin Carson
People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the… — Benjamin Carson

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