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• Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

  Bruce Catton

  Understanding, Saws, Revolutionary

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

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• There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

  John Steinbeck

  Medicine, Ends, Fixed

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.709, Penguin

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• A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Doctors, Captains, Ships

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• Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

  Carl Sagan

  Teacher, Book, Mind

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• I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Care, Given, Observation

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• I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

  Charles Kennedy

  Taken, Decision, Needs

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• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

  Hippocrates

  Physicians, Disease, Illness

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.360

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• It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.

  Hippocrates

  Healing, Doctors, Hands

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• God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

  Teresa of Avila

  Evil, Endurance, Never Change

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• Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

  Horace Mann

  Perseverance, Sacrifice, Self

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.313

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• I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

  Linus Pauling

  Doctors, Vitamins, Physicians

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• Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

  Karl Abraham

  Affection, Violent, Investigation

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.62, Karnac Books

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• Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

  Karl Abraham

  Normal, Instinct, States

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

  John C. Calhoun

  Wrath, Adversaries

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• The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

  R. D. Laing

  Traveler, Psychiatry, Psychiatrist

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• Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the power of the spirit when all seems lost. It proves, over and over again, the truth of Tennyson's words: "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." Prayer puts us on God's side. It aligns us with life's higher purposes, aims, and ideals. Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, Prayer, Healing

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• "Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.

  Harvey Cox

  Children, Healing, School

  Harvey Cox (1985). “Seduction Spirit”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Work, Holiday, Men

  'The Conquest of Happiness' (1930) ch. 5

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• Do not get up immediately at the end of the archana. The beloved deity should be brought from the seat in front of us back into our hearts and re-installed there. Seeing the form of the deity seated in the heart, meditate for a little longer. If it is possible, it is good to sing 2 or 3 kirtans. After taking an injection, a patient is asked to rest for a few minutes to let the medicine spread throughout the body. Similarly, to obtain the full benefit of the mantras, we should keep the mind calm for a while after worship.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Heart, Medicine, Meditation

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• In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Statistics, Succeed

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.

  Hippocrates

  Eye, Self, Yellow

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• This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.

  Aretaeus of Cappadocia

  Science, Despair, Tuberculosis

  On the Causes and Symptoms of Acute Diseases II.II.18 (on Tuberculosis)

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• Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Causes, Imagine, Used

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• Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their carrying capacity, creating either too much or not enough functionating, an aberration known as disease. The nature of the affection depends upon the shape of the bone, the amount of pressure, age of patient, character of nerves impinged upon and the individual makeup.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Communication, Character, Makeup

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• People are not patient anymore.

  Antonio Banderas

  People

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "Tavis Smiley" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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