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Patient Quotes by Oliver Sacks
- If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked…
- There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.
- There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.
- First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.
- For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain…
- I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they…
- Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the…
- Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But…
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