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Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. -- Marcia Angell
Patients know what patients want to know. -- Dave deBronkart
Patients have the right to help themselves. -- James Heywood
Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam. -- Abraham Verghese
Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace. -- Harmon Killebrew
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. -- Stanislav Grof
L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals. -- Michael Moore
Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health. -- William Osler
Patients can often be discharged from hospital, then re-admitted a few days later with complications. -- Chris Toumazou
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. -- Armstrong Williams
Religions are popular in psych wards, especially religions with self-stylized heavens. Patients make suicide appeal this way. -- Brian Spellman
Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible. -- Shinya Yamanaka
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data. -- Elizabeth Holmes
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death. -- William Osler
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body. -- Irving Kirsch
Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster. -- John Green
In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule, Are precious. -- Allen Tate
Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion. -- Norma McCorvey
The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture. -- Debbie Stabenow
Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights....We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free markets have provided so much for so many. -- Ron Paul
Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves. -- Milton H. Erickson
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more. -- Dave deBronkart
Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing. -- Alexis Carrel
Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that. -- Yusuf Hamied
Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a major problem. Patients believe that once they're better, they no longer need the medication. It doesn't work that way. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem. -- David D. Burns
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society. -- Ben Carson
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. -- Hippocrates
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. -- Sigmund Freud
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. -- William Osler
My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives. -- Ami Bera
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. -- Chris Hadfield
As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming. -- David Perlmutter
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health. -- Lois Capps
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. -- Paul Farmer
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians. -- Ramakrishna
I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions. -- Antonio Damasio
Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. -- Peter Singer
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti. -- Paul Farmer
As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems. -- Atul Gawande
Throughout my career, as both a physician and a scientist, I have drawn inspiration from Merck's unwavering commitment to scientific excellence. Over time, this commitment has brought forth an unparalleled number of breakthrough medicines and vaccines that improve the lives of patients around the world. -- Roger M. Perlmutter
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. -- Ivan Pavlov
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. -- Nellie Bly
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication. -- Andrew Weil
Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. -- Steve Gleason
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or co-workers - because there's still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll. -- Lynda Resnick
Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator. -- Dean Ornish
Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?' -- Yuvraj Singh
The Doctor's Motto: Have patients. -- Ethel Mumford
Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients. -- Karl Kraus
Marijuana is beneficial to many patients -- Joycelyn Elders
... patients seldom run amuck at mealtime. -- Clifford Whittingham Beers
We are guests in our patients' lives. -- Donald Berwick
Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard. -- Leston Havens
I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. -- John Malkovich
Older patients who live alone can become depressed. -- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. -- Ronald Reagan
How poor are they that have have not patients. -- William Shakespeare
Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients. -- Carl Jung
Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them. -- C. Everett Koop
My poor are my best patients. God pays for them. -- Herman Boerhaave
The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine. -- Arthur Frederick Saunders
Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients. -- Benjamin Franklin
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. -- Thomas Szasz
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves -- Bernie Siegel
Too much profit is being made at the expense of unsuspecting patients. -- Melissa Cady
An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
The patients who constantly feel their pulse are not getting any better. -- Hubert Van Zeller
My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from. -- Robert Atkins
The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles. -- Frank Dobson
Suicide ends for some patients so others call survival a feat - teamwork. -- Brian Spellman
Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals. -- Mehmet Oz
My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients. -- Zach Braff
Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe. -- Sherry Stringfield
Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. -- Herbert Hoover
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients. -- Oscar Levant
For sure, to be exact, one seventh of my patients never graduated my program. -- Steve-O
Religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion. -- Nancy Northup
Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. -- Jodi Picoult
Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy. -- Mary Daly
I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.-Greg House -- House
Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health. -- William C. Bryant
What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients? -- Sarah Chalke
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story. -- Jerome Groopman
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. -- Karl Abraham
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them. -- Carlos Santana
Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years. -- Michael Landon
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ... -- Agnes Repplier
My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients. -- Atul Gawande
But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian. -- Debi Thomas
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy. -- Andrew Lansley
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients -- Carl Levin
I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. -- Al Alvarez
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients. -- Irving Kirsch
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. -- Oliver Sacks
Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. -- Nelson DeMille
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability. -- Charles W. Pickering
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. -- Carl Levin
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients. -- Irving Kirsch
Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients' hearts." -- Gayle Forman
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic. -- R. D. Laing
As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation. -- Patricia Hewitt
Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers. -- Tom Ridge
The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic. -- Rae Foley
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not. -- Arnold H. Glasow
Key message to all patients: Let go of all negativity and empower your body through your positivity. -- Widad Akrawi
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients. -- Aristotle
If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help. -- Irving Kirsch
Every cent that goes to research is changing the lives of patients and their families right now. -- Robert Pattinson
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. -- C.G. Jung
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. -- C.G. Jung
I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine. -- Severo Ochoa
Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation. -- Mos Def
Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here"?less hi-how're-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter's-patients. -- J.R. Ward
We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane. -- Greg Anderson

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