Art of life Quote by Samuel Shem

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

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

When I became ill, I started to experience what my patients had suffered under my care.

— Kent Brantly

I've always felt solidarity with those people who have to cope with illnesses, including ones that are far worse than mine.

— Seve Ballesteros

I wanted to show people that doctors are humans, too. It's important for us to be around other people - that way, we can…

— Mikhail Varshavski

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

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a…

— George MacDonald

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

— Ethel Mumford

You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything.…

— Grete Waitz

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't…

— Elizabeth Holmes

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

“Even doctors — or perhaps especially doctors — need to be touched by something personally to understand the suffering of others. We’ve been taught…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth