Compassion Quote by Patch Adams

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

— Richard Dawkins

Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

— Dale Carnegie

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

— Marcel Proust

“No one in medical school or beyond is charged with having to be compassionate toward you, so you must learn to do it yourself.”

— Jeremy Spiegel

“If everyone only gave a fraction of the compassion their hearts are capable of giving... how much suffering could we alleviate in this world?”

— Alfa H

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is…

— Sharon Stone

“Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.”

— Martha Moody

A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

— Vincent de Paul

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

— Jack Kornfield

“The doctor always prescribes the approximate, for there aren't any set of perfect treatments for diseases.”

— Aporva Kala

“doctors don’t think probabilities apply to their patients,”

— Michael Lewis

“Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.”

— Sharon Salzberg