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Patients Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom
- Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and…
- He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call.…
- What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I…
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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