Quotes About Patient

I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.

Why is it that God gets all the credit for the good stuff, but it's the doctor's fault when shit happens? When the patient comes through, it's always 'Thank God,' and when the patient dies, it's always blame the doctor. Just once in my life, just for the sheer fucking novelty of it, it would be nice if somebody blamed God when the patient dies, instead of me.

On her lips, which were dry, was a new shade of lipstick, by Tussy; her doctor had ordered her to put on lipstick and powder right in the middle of labour; he and Sloan both thought it was important for a maternity patient to keep herself up to the mark.

It wasn't until about 1920, he added, that "the average patient with the average illness seeing the average physician came off better for the encounter.

I will be cool, persevering, and prudent.

Every now and then I find myself thinking of something my daughter told me when she was in medical school: one sign that a patient is dying is that she feels no pain.

It has everything to do with Rotterdam. America's oil addiction is a sickness that's killing the patient. Christ, Americans would rather send soldiers to war than carpool to work.

Going to the doctor—at least this doctor—was like going to the hairdresser. The client (patient) has to let the professional know what she wants out of each visit. The patient is in charge.

I had entered Kidneyland. I was officially a patient now. Somehow, I had managed to walk through the door: WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SICKNESS. We have air-conditioning and HBO.

Curiosity into passion; passion into purpose; and purpose into patient profit—that's the safest way to play this game.

He also said that if anyone did anything to mess up the rest of the testing, he was going to call 911 personally. Yeah, like that wouldn't make it into the nightly news again: WHEELCHAIR-BOUND CANCER PATIENT ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH.

Let's not malign the restaurants," said Des Hermies. "They afford a very special delight to the person who has the instinct of the inspector. I had an opportunity to gratify this instinct just the other night. I was returning from a call on a patient, and I dropped into one of these establishments where for the sum of three francs you are entitled to soup, two selected dishes, a salad, and a dessert.

Because doctors can't name the illness, everyone—the patient's family, friends, health insurance, and in many cases the patient—comes to think of the patient as not really sick and not really suffering. What the patient comes to require in these circumstances, in the absence of help, are facts—tests and studies that show that they might "in fact" have something.

A nurse," I said, "would be wearing a starched uniform, and she'd have a fever thermometer ready to jab into a patient's mouth at the first sign of acute convalescence.

The therapist, on the other hand, is commissioned to generate happy endings. This is made difficult by the complicated fact that while the therapist must try to save his patient from tragedy, he must also know the tragic factors in life and face them unflinchingly.

Let's replace Obamacare with reforms that put you back in charge of your own healthcare.

If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

Oh, and what about the nurse? She was fired and charged as a criminal. That's Newton, too. If there are really bad effects, there must have been really bad causes. A dead patient means a really bad nurse. Much worse than if the patient had survived. So much worse, she's got to be a criminal. Must be. We can't escape Newton even in our thinking about one of the most difficult areas of safety: accountability for the consequences of failure.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.