Carries Quote by Martha Beck

The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or…

— Christiane Northrup

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

— Frances Farmer

“By contrast, the individual with a character disorder lacks the ability to recognize that he has a problem and, if confronted with this possibility,…

— Eleanor D. Payson

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is…

— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

“One must drop all presuppositions and dogmas and rules - for there only lead to stalemate or disaster; one must cease to regard all…

— Oliver Sacks

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

— Homer

A patient man is one who can put up with himself

— Anonymous

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

— Susan Sontag

Patients have the right to help themselves.

— James Heywood

“The more dysfunctional the system, the more closed and rigid are the roles it assigns. In families that are chemically, sexually or violently dysfunctional,…

— John Bradshaw

The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is…

— Wilfred Trotter

Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so…

— Milton H. Erickson