Patient Quotes - Page 12

• I think doctors care very deeply about their patients, but when they organize into the AMA, their responsibility is to the welfare of doctors, and quite often, these lobbying groups are the only ones that are heard in the state capitols and in the capitol of our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Responsibility, Dark

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• I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.

  Stephen Young

  Cancer, Moving, Dark

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• Dr. Lawrence Burton....in fighting cancer.(:) Many of his patients are now living normal lives after being told there was nothing more the conventional treatments could do for them, and that death was imminent....Why are Americans being forced to go off shore for treatment for cancer from an American doctor and for a program that was developed in America?

  Larry McDonald

  Cancer, Fighting, Dark

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• The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.

  Ivan Illich

  Dark, Drug, Suffering

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• When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no quarrel. 'The ultimate test of our professionalism' is how Commander McKendrick describes an unprovoked attack on a nation with no submarines, no navy and no air force, and now with no clean water and no electricity and, in many hospitals, no anaesthetic with which to amputate small limbs shredded by shrapnel. I have seen elsewhere how this is done, with a gag in the patient's mouth.

  John Pilger

  Usa, Iraq, Air

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• A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Communication, Practice, Listening

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• Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Marriage, Strong, Humble

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• If there is a serious outbreak in the UK I doubt voters will risk a Labour government. Time to get serious... Look at Diane Abbott's irresponsible comments on Ebola patients, Mili's open border policy. No. Way.

  Louise Mensch

  Stupid, Government, Ebola

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• Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they said nothing or acted neutral, most women didn't. Finally, when obstetricians discouraged VBAC in women who wanted to try it, none of them did.

  Henci Goer

  Believe, Doctors, Trying

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Done, Down And

  "7 Clinics with Buck Brannaman". Documentary, Sport, Western, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Choices

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.231, Nilgiri Press

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• We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with courage, hope, readiness for hard work, and to cherish large and generous ideals.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Believe, Hard Work, Perfect

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• The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.

  George W. Bush

  Wife, Sound, Firsts

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• I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

  Emeli Sande

  Be Patient, Desperate, Ifs

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• I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Strong, Israel, Profound

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• Not only are the studies themselves often lacking even face value, but they also drain badly needed funds away from patient care needs.

  Neal Barnard

  Faces, Needs, Care

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• God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient's mother, 'Don't be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.' God laughs, saying to Himself, 'I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save it!' The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, 'This side is mine and that side is yours.' He laughs and says to Himself, 'The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.'

  Ramakrishna

  Mother, Brother, Boys

  "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna" as translated by Swami Nikhilananda, Vol. 1, 1942.

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• A number of holistic and complementary medical doctors in the US, from general practitioners to psychiatrists, are using maca with a variety of patients. Both men and women report a significant boost in libido. And a number of men who have suffered from erectile dysfunction have improved, as a result of taking maca.

  Chris Kilham

  Men, Numbers, Dysfunction

  Chris Kilham (2013). “Hot Plants: Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women”, p.160, St. Martin's Griffin

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• We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

  Atul Gawande

  Winning, Dollars, Tickets

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.92, Metropolitan Books

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• Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Physicians, Gout

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?". At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?". I wish I knew.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Mean, Voice, Differences

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.9, Delacorte Press

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

  Monica Lewinsky

  Zero, Figures, Humiliated

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

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• The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

  Needs, Explanation

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• I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

  Abraham Verghese

  Important, Way, Computer

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• If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.

  Tanya Davis

  Lonely, Waiting, Firsts

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