Quotes About Patients

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

My dad's a doctor. So when we were little, at our family Christmases, we'd always have a couple of his elderly patients over for lunch.

From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.

Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications.

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.

It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

I have had patients die because of lack of insurance.

Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.

Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

There's some experiences you can't get in Congress. You don't learn what it's like to turn patients away because they're uninsured, or be passed over in the waiting room because you're on Medicaid.

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

They can become very irritated. They can become very aggressive. Not all Alzheimer's patients are that way, but many are. My mother was very difficult. She had extreme mood changes and would become fearful.

There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?