Quotes About Treatment

You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.

You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course. —Voltaire

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.

The psychiatrist motioned Klein to come over to him. "Let's get her tranquilized," he whispered. "Maybe I can talk to her.

Her condition isn't quite what it seems," explained Klein. "It's a form of overcompensation, an overreaction to depression.

active catatonics. Among

wrote a prescription for soluble Thorazine and disposable syringes, and gave it to Chris. "Have this filled right away." Chris handed it to Sharon. "Shar, take care of that for me, would you? Just call and they'll send it. I'd like to go with the doctor while he makes those tests." Chris turned and looked up at the doctor wistfully. "Do you mind?" Klein noted the tightness

To put it coldly, my friends, all the ones who should have died years ago, would have died years ago without beta-blockers, stents, angioplasties, pacemakers, exotic medications, well, now they're dying all at once." John

This review also pointed to six common components of effective brief treatment (cf. Miller & Sanchez, 1994), summarized by the acronym FRAMES: Feedback of personal status relative to norms Responsibility for personal change Advice to change Menu of options from which to choose in pursuing change Empathic counselor style Support for self-efficacy What began as an interest in motivation for treatment had broadened now to focusing on motivation for change.

She badgered the doctors and nurses into giving you the kind of treatment they usually only give to people they actually care about.

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

Kill thy physician, and the fee bestowUpon the foul disease.

With the help of a surgeon, he might yet recover, and prove an ass.

Some griefs are med'cinable.

Never had he been subjected to such rude treatment. How long could it last? How long, he wondered, could he abide it?

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.