Awareness Quote by Milton H. Erickson

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and…

— Sigmund Freud

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Frances Farmer

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to…

— Diane Frolov

The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed,…

— Colleen Saidman

Patients want to be seen as people. For me, the person's life comes first; the disease is simply one aspect of it, which I…

— Bernie Siegel

“People tend to forget they are patients. Once they leave the doctor’s office or the hospital, they simply put it out of their minds.…

— Don DeLillo

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and…

— Walker Percy

I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With…

— Samuel Shem

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

— Immanuel Kant

Most medical personnel remain largely unfamiliar with non-medical treatments, and tend to dismiss them without knowing about what they're dismissing. This is a great…

— Andrew Saul

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

— Frieda Fromm-Reichmann