Quotes About Patient

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

An IVF patient is - is living and breathing hope. It's... it's, um... it's - You wouldn't do it if you didn't have a sense of hope. Why would you put yourself through it?

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

Sâttvika people are very thoughtful, quiet, and patient. They take food in small quantities, and never anything bad.

The Egyptians said that a physician could cure only if his heart was moved and his emotions engaged in behalf of a patient

To Western medicine, understanding an illness means uncovering a distinct entity that is separate from the patient's being; to Chinese medicine, understanding means perceiving the relationships among all the patient's signs and symptoms in the context of his or her life.

Obviously, culturally, England's style of play is a lot more direct and physical. In Spain, they're a lot more patient, and they have the ball a lot more.

I've never gone and spoken to an audience, you know, 'come and be my patient.' I've never taken an ad in a newspaper, 'come and be my patient.'

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not

I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed, Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/ volunteer/employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of which he can remember, but the most he is having trouble remembering. History is transforming the past to a story that the person tells himself. Sometimes, the story stems from the past, but even the most sincere patient's history is more like a myth. (Translated from the Hebrew edition).

Farmer liked to tell his Harvard students that to be a good clinician you must never let a patient know that you have problems too, or that you're in a hurry.

El amor es como una enfermedad rebelde, que solo con el amor se cura, una enfermedad de la que el paciente no quiere curar, de la que el enfermo no quiere curar, de la que el enfermo no quiere recuperarse (...)

One of the fundamental truths of psychiatry was that sometimes you had to leave a patient who needed you. She

We could, as Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt therapy, would have suggested, deal with this in what he called "the here and now." Perls believed that the dynamic set up in the session between the therapist and patient is the same dynamic the patient sets up between herself and the rest of world.

True insights happen only when the therapist gets out of the way so that the patient is able to gain his or her own psychological knowledge.

Defensive medicine: A doctor orders tests or treatments that are not clinically indicated and might even harm the patient primarily because of fear of litigation.

Although they were the Christian church in Corinth, an inordinate amount of Corinth was yet in them, emerging in a number of attitudes and behaviors that required radical surgery without killing the patient. This is what 1 Corinthians attempts to do.

...for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

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