Patient Quotes - Page 25

• Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.

  Mother Teresa

  Sweet, Jesus, Nursing

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

  Ellen Goodman

  Yesterday, Transition, Today

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• Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Oil, Useless, Matter

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• We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Pain, Medicine

  Plutarch (1888). “Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto”

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• Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

  Agnes Repplier

  Love Is, Common, Symptoms

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Character, Nurse, Essentials

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• The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

  Abraham Flexner

  Facts, Students, Locked Up

  Abraham Flexner (1910). “Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching”

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• Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Illness

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.17, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.34

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• We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Loyal, Want, Share

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• There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Patience, Mistake, Men

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.78, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Patient endurance attends to all things.

  Teresa of Avila

  Endurance, All Things

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• Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

  Teresa of Avila

  Patience, Endurance, All Things

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• To every class we have a school assign'd,
  Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind:
  Yet one there is, that small regard to rule
  Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school;
  That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits,
  And awes some thirty infants as she knits;
  Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay
  Some trifling price for freedom through the day.
  At this good matron's hut the children meet,
  Who thus becomes the mother of the street.

  George Crabbe

  Mother, Children, Humble

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author”, p.239

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• A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Pieces

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• I think if the doctor is a good doctor and has a patient's best interest in mind then he's not going to allow anything to compromise that patient's care. The bottom line is the doctor has to care for his patient. You have to have that overwhelming sense of welfare for your patient.

  Charles Teo

  Thinking, Doctors, Mind

  "Dr Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2011.

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• If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded research like I have, if I've raised millions of dollars like I have, and yet there was one patient out there who was unhappy, I think it's a price that you pay. The good would overcome that one bit of bad.

  Charles Teo

  Thinking, Brain, Having Fun

  "Dr Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2011.

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• The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?

  Charles Teo

  Cancer, Brain, Diagnosis

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• I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

  Rob Zombie

  Confusing, Littles, Freak

  Source: dailydead.com

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• Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.

  Mary Daly

  Doctors, Gynecologists, Solutions

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• Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.

  George Sand

  Country, Art, Lying

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• True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Philosophy, Calm, Enjoyment

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• People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a very patient and meticulous work, and you have to do it with joy and love for the process, not for the outcome.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, People, Joy

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• Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Endurance, World, Virtue

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• Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Doctors, Dying, Sometimes

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