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Patient Quotes - Page 12

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

To be impatient is to be hooked on the future.

Gerald G. Jampolsky, Diane V. Cirincione (1992). “Wake-Up Calls”, Hay House Incorporated

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

"Where Civic Republicanism and Deliberative Democracy Meet". The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 26, No. 6, In Search of the Good Society: The Work of Daniel Callahan, pp. 12-14, November/December, 1996.