Patients Quotes

474 Patients quotes by 333 unique authors

What patients want is not rocket science, which is really unfortunate because if it were rocket science, we would be doing it. We are great… — Laura Gilpin
Patients know what patients want to know. — Dave deBronkart
Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly. — Steve Gleason
A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to… — Steve Gleason
Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola — Peter Piot
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful. — Pamela Stephenson
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for… — Charles C. Mann
I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the breast area on… — John Diamond
A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are… — Herbert M. Shelton
My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients. — Zach Braff
I've turned down a lot of proposed scripts for Scrubs episodes, mainly ones with AIDs patients. It sickens me, really. If you don't want AIDs,… — Zach Braff
Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the… — Albert Schweitzer
Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights....We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free markets have… — Ron Paul
Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients' rights'… — Ron Paul
Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We… — Ronald Reagan
The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so… — Ronald Reagan
The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see which kinds of… — Nhat Hanh
Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights… — Kenny Smith
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim. — Gerald Jonas
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for… — Dale Carnegie
I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create… — Abram Hoffer
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality… — Charles W. Pickering
That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that… — Michael Baden
I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will… — Grete Waitz

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