Patients Quotes
474 quotes by 352 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
— Benjamin Carson
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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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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they…
— Benjamin Carson
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients…
— Tracy Chapman
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If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone…
— Chris Viehbacher
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We have to be very careful not to blame the patients. A lot of the conversation [around patient engagement] has been, how do we get…
— Victor Montori
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The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and…
— Richard Doll
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Marijuana is beneficial to many patients
— Joycelyn Elders
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"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients…
— Dave deBronkart
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And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh…
— Betty Ford
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead…
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
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Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.
— Florence Nightingale
Who Wrote These Patients Quotes
352 authors contributed a total of 474 Patients Quotes, led by these top contributors: