Patients Quotes
474 Patients quotes by 333 unique authors
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If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
— Irving Kirsch
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
— Irving Kirsch
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
— Irving Kirsch
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Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead…
— Bill Halter
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When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding more than 200…
— Peter Singer
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As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift…
— Rob Wittman
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Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple, including gift buying.…
— Jenna Morasca
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Studies show that Avastin can prolong the lives of patients with late-stage breast and lung cancer by several months when the drug is combined with…
— Alex Berenson
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HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
— Alex Berenson
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Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.
— Alex Berenson
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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…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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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…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as…
— Steven Klein
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop…
— Malala Yousafzai
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There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the dead rather than…
— Shaffi Mather
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I am not a doctor or a scientist, but merely a passionate layperson, a filter, a messenger. I spoke with so many patients who are…
— Suzanne Somers
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I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.
— Severo Ochoa
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Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.
— Elizabeth Holmes
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The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part…
— Lance Loud
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Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience,…
— Jenny Shipley
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For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial…
— Chris Toumazou
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When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been…
— Chris Toumazou
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Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications.
— Chris Toumazou
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Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and…
— Mitch Kapor
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The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
— Martin Seligman
Who Wrote These Patients Quotes
333 authors contributed a total of 474 Patients Quotes, led by these top contributors: