Patients Quotes

474 Patients quotes by 333 unique authors

Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost control, more for… — Ezekiel Emanuel
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave… — George Bernard Shaw
Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped… — Barry Lynes
In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a single chemotherapy, (2)… — Barry Lynes
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. — Sigmund Freud
As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals,… — Atul Gawande
Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK. — Steve Gleason
Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff,… — Ellie Goulding
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. — Stanislav Grof
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died… — Ornette Coleman
I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those… — Eric Davis
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all,… — Annie Dillard
Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life...… — Ezekiel Emanuel
Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare,… — Jimmy Fallon
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they… — Paul Farmer
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable… — Paul Farmer
Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients… — Dianne Feinstein
I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was… — Khaled Hosseini
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has… — Carl Jung
I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, 'My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes… — Mindy Kaling
Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to… — Jack Kevorkian
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death. — Jack Kevorkian
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of… — Jeffrey Kluger
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever -… — Jeffrey Kluger
Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years. — Michael Landon

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