Patience Quote by Louis de Bernieres

“It was he who had given Billy morphine. There wasn’t a real doctor in the compound, so the doctoring was up to him. “How’s…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one…

— Thomas Sydenham

“Doctors possessed true power. They could salvage the unsalvageable; they could extend life and raise the level of comfort for those in their final…

— Glen Krisch

“Other doctors lose as many patients as I do, he would say. But with me they die happier.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark,…

— Alyssa Reyans

“A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated…

— Guy Sajer

“In all the medical dramas I’d ever seen, there was always some solution, some last-minute, miraculously undiscovered remedy. Nobody ever just gave up on…

— Morgan Matson

“There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.”

— Edward E. Rosenbaum

“if he dies, why, perhaps, God of His mercy will take me too. The grave is a sure cure for an aching heart!” She…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he’d managed to live forty-two…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day. Dr.”

— Padma Lakshmi

“Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to…

— Michel de Montaigne