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Patient Quotes by Hippocrates
- Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what…
- Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.
- Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
- It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not…
- I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from…
- The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
- It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It…
- In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether…
- Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not;…
More Patient Quotes
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — 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… — 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… — Anna Benson
- In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of… — 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… — Alfred Adler
- Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other.… — 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,… — Nellie Bly
- Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a… — Jo Brand
- For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal… — Geraldine Brooks