Patients Quotes

474 Patients quotes by 333 unique authors

The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related… — Bernie Siegel
My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years.… — Daphne Oz
In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority… — Sheri Fink
The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for… — Magdi Yacoub
I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering… — James Rothman
It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a… — Patrick Soon-Shiong
Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex… — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits… — Jerrold Nadler
As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients. — Ami Bera
My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their… — Ami Bera
I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to… — Ami Bera
Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the… — Ami Bera
At the end of the day, that physician needs to be in the mix telling patients what their habits ought to be and whether or… — Miles D. White
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so. — Richard Dawkins
Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients… — Thomas Pogge
It was in August or September of 1995 that I met Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana and I met through Oonagh Toffolo, whose husband was… — Hasnat Khan
Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace. — Harmon Killebrew
Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths. — Virginia Postrel
Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based… — Virginia Postrel
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want. — Virginia Postrel
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better… — Sherwin B. Nuland
Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with relatively mild disorders… — Sherwin B. Nuland
Please, let patients help improve healthcare. Let patients help steer our decisions, strategic and practical. Let patients help define what value in medicine is. — Dave deBronkart
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds,… — Thomas R. Insel
Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the… — Tim Walberg

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