Creativity Quote by Patch Adams

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They…

— Abram Hoffer

I have a lot of respect for those in medicine that are trying to extend our lives or help us when we're sick.

— Randy Pitchford

“Sick ones cannot teach you to be well. Psychiatrists have a high suicide rate. Why do you think they can help you live happily,…

— Seth

I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

— Jeanie Cameron

I believe I'm the best therapy my psychiatrist has ever had.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well,…

— Chris Cleave

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of…

— R. D. Laing

We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less…

— Brittany Maynard

“There were nights when I left the sessions physically and emotionally drained after hearing the anguish pour out like blood from a gaping wound.…

— Jonathan Kellerman

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help,…

— Terry Pratchett

I was drawn to medicine because I'm fond of serving. In college, we go to the orphanage every week, see patients first-hand.

— Sai Pallavi