Quotes About Health

I am no longer young, so I really have to be patient with my body.

I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.

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 the patient him or herself.

One day, I had a patient who was going through chemotherapy who came to me and said, 'I'm going to go on with what I'm doing, but I need you to tell me what it is that I'm fighting.'

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.

I'm opposed to anybody getting between me and the patient.

Every insurer must offer every individual a plan and ensure each patient with pre-existing conditions has access to 'adequate and affordable health insurance coverage.'

Every Crohn's and colitis patient is different, and they all respond to different things. That's the craziest thing about it.

It doesn't hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see 'cancer' in big letters, and you're the patient. Then it all kind of comes home.

It took me a long time to be able to say I was a cancer patient. Then, for a long time, I was only that: A cancer patient.

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

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.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!

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

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the first patients to be given antibiotics.

Covid-19-affected patients cannot be orphaned.