Quotes About Patient

You might think the operation has been a success because the patient leaves the hospital alive but if you saw them years later – as I often do – you would realize that the result of the operation was a human disaster.

the government's so-called 'market-driven reforms' of the NHS seemed to be driving the NHS even further away from what went on in the real market of the private sector, in which I was once again a patient.

Los neurocirujanos dicen a veces que operar un aneurisma se parece a la tarea de desactivar una bomba, aunque se requiere una valentía de otra clase y es la vida del paciente la que está en juego, no la del médico.

Një mjek i mirë duhet t'u flasë të dy qenieve kontradiktore brenda pacientit që po vdes – pjesës që e di që po vdes dhe asaj që shpreson se do të rrojë ende.

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.

If it is a question of trepanning, I am your man. It is an operation I have performed scores, nay hundreds of times without losing a patient. That is to say except in a very few cases of vicious cachexy, where it was only done to please the relations. I trepanned Mrs Butcher for a persistent migraine, and she has never complained since.

The operation, performed on an immensely obese, timid patient, was far more intricate than they had expected; yet finally it was done, and not only was it successful in itself, but there was a real likelihood that the man might live.

domino transplant" in which she received a healthy heart and lung from a deceased donor and her still-healthy heart was given to another patient; this way, her new lungs, connected to their original heart, are less likely to fail.)

Manuel was in his early thirties, well spoken, handsome in his motorcycle leathers, patient with my questions, and polite

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

Empathy requires being attuned to the patient's perspective and understanding how the illness is woven into this particular persons' life. Last--and this is where doctors often stumble--empathy requires being able to communicate all of this to the patient.

It is, of course, laudable that patient satisfaction has become a high priority, but sometimes window-dressing efforts like fancy coffee in the waiting room get priority over things that might have an actual effect on health care, such as giving nurses paid time off for continuing education.

If you close your eyes on a busy urban sidewalk the sound of everybody's different footwear's footsteps all put together sounds like something getting chewed by something huge and tireless and patient.

If you close your eyes on a busy urban sidewalk the sound of everybody's different footwear's footsteps all put together sounds like something getting chewed by something huge and tireless and patient.

How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of the perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? DOCTOR: Therein the patient Must minister to himself.

The head's ache evaporates into a state of numbness, a cave of sighs. Over the years you lose the melodrama of seeing yourself as a patient. The sighing ceases; the headaches remain. You hold your head in your hands. You sit still.

There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

The shamans are interesting because they exhibit many of the dissociative features of the MPD patient. They differ from the MPD patient in that the shamans were healthy and use their dissociation in a culturally integrated way. The MPD patient tends to be dysfunctional and socially isolated.

Disease [is] not an entity, but a fluctuating condition of the patient's body, a battle between the substance of disease and the natural self-healing tendency of the body.