Patients Quotes

474 quotes by 352 authors

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
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
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
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Marijuana is beneficial to many patients — Joycelyn Elders
"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
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
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
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
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
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
Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale

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