Patience Quote by Willie Parker

“Everything I thought I understood about disease research, drug development, and the delivery of clinical care has been turned on its head. This isn’t…

— Mary Dimmock

“The medical profession is justly conservative.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Am I not as much a doctor as they? I too have my patients; in the first place, theirs, whom they call sick; and…

— Victor Hugo

“What is it about our human nature that we feel the need to defend the choices we’ve made when it comes to our medical…

— Suzanne Somers

“Well,” he said, “the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient.” There”

— Jon Ronson

“I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.”

— Howard Florey

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

— Garry Trudeau

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

— Michael Lewis

“Doctors possessed true power. They could salvage the unsalvageable; they could extend life and raise the level of comfort for those in their final…

— Glen Krisch

“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a…

— Paul Kalanithi

“I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of…

— Agatha Christie