Patient Quotes - Page 19

• Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

  Edward Gibbon

  Often Is, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon (1802). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.26

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• To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

  John Owen

  Angel, Men, Safety

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 287-88, 1922.

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• It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

  Martin Scorsese

  Excellence, Brilliant, Film

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• A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

  Max Muller

  Men, Hatred

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Xist Publishing

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• Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Psychology, Understanding, Technique

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• I witnessed a surgery on a patient from New Orleans who was in a car accident. He didn't have any flow of oxygen. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't get a good flow of oxygen, so they did a surgery on him right there, and I was just holding the IV up watching.

  Glen Davis

  New Orleans, Oxygen, Car

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• If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

  Eric Maisel

  Patience, Long, Waiting

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.236, Penguin

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• The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.

  Arnold Palmer

  Heart, Bad Day, Golf

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• There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Thinking, Physicians

  Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2

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• Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Art, Strong, Educational

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Compassion, Disheartened

  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”

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• The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

  William Osler

  Doctors, Pills, Looks

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.181, ACP Press

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• Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

  William Osler

  Diagnosis

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• To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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• Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.

  William Osler

  Special, Cheerful, Looks

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

  William Osler

  Physicians, Fool, Treats

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

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• We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

  Bruce Vento

  Bridges, Focus, Library

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Courage, Mean, Imperfection

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• Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.

  William Osler

  Exercise, Air, Should Have

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 3

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• Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dark, Night, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall. I am glad that you make a daily new beginning; there is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Fall, New Beginnings

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• Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Secret

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• This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Knitting, Long

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• Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Inspirational, Hurt, Love Is

  Lurlene McDaniel (2013). “No Time to Cry: The Dawn Rochelle Series, Book Four”, p.49, Darby Creek

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• Be patient, be diligent. Consistency is the key.

  Frank Mir

  Keys, Mma, Consistency

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