Patient Quotes - Page 17

The ideal doctor is patient.

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

The patient is the nucleus of the health care system.

Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

If they could say that to their patients, it could be a way to treatment, as in both working on it and preserving it. That could give a patient the faith to fully experience that beauty, without reliving the torment.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

We have to rethink, how do we get a complete 360-degree understanding of the patient?

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented fact.

I am an incredibly impatient person.

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!