Anxious Quote by Irvin D. Yalom

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while…

— Aristotle

“Well,” he said, “the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient.” There”

— Jon Ronson

“Physicians are so good at what they do these days that you hardly ever see anyone who’s healthy” is how he ended the consultation.…

— Hendrik Groen

“People have to be patient when they're talking to a nervous person.”

— Jonathan Lethem

The patient decides when it's best to go.

— Jack Kevorkian

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

— Bowie Kuhn

He had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

— Anonymous

“Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point…

— Zack Love

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here…

— Anonymous

“When the doctors came in a little while later saying they thought they knew my diagnosis, I was afraid to know.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.

— Irving Kirsch

Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they…

— Paul Douglas