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Patients Quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- 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…
- We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of…
- Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them…
- My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.
- I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some…
- My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the…
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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… — Robert Benchley
- 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
- Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something… — 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… — Benjamin Carson
- The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do… — Benjamin Carson
- I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed… — 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… — Unknown Author
- We have to be very careful not to blame the patients. A lot of the conversation [around patient engagement] has been, how… — Unknown Author
- The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken… — Richard Doll