Patients Quotes

474 Patients quotes by 333 unique authors

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental… — Ivan Pavlov
I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my… — Ernest Van den Haag
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can… — David Horowitz
I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my… — James Rebhorn
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him, it… — Corinne Heline
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know… — Florence Nightingale
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to… — Susan Sontag
I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the… — Mother Teresa
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are… — John Berger
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying… — Thomas Szasz
As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not… — Maya Angelou
The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters… — Florence Nightingale
Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally… — Richard Asher
Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much… — Dean Ornish
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving… — Florence Nightingale
It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them. — Cornelius Van Til
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. — Elyn Saks
It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in terms of profits… — Margot Kidder
They say I'm young, but my purpose is the inspiration of a nation, innovation 'till I change the talk into a conversation. I'm like a… — Tyler James Williams

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