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Patient Quotes - Page 4

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 1 (William B. Bean)

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

"Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past" edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2005.

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 442), 1895.

Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.

"Monica’s Mission: Can the humiliated Lewinsky lead the charge against online harassment?" by Howard Kurtz, www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2014.

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

Larry Dossey (2011). “Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine”, p.18, Harper Collins

The patient is the one with the disease

"The House of God". Book by Samuel Shem, September 7, 2010.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

Saint Francis (de Sales), Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, Wendy M. Wright, Joseph F. Power (1988). “Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction”