Patient Quotes - Page 28

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  Maeve Binchy

  Mother, Fighting, Nurse

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• It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

  Harry Houdini

  Dangerous, Wells

  Harry Houdini (2007). “The Right Way to Do Wrong: An ExposT of Successful Criminals”, p.40, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Following a terrorism-related event, fear and panic can be expected from both patients and health care providers.

  Tom Ridge

  Events, Care, Panic

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• One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Mother, Baby, Waiting

  "Great speeches of the 20th century: Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or death". www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained.

  Claire Messud

  Dream, Children, Husband

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.18, Vintage

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• Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Life, Motivational, Change

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• Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

  Joseph Murray

  Saving, Kidneys, Improvement

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• The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Heart, Quality, Important

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• When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the systems most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.

  Ron Wyden

  Home, Care, Veteran

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• Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

  Tim Walberg

  Stress, Doctors, Government

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• 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

  Doctors, Want, Able

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.89, Princeton University Press

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• I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Play, Psychology

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.27, Routledge

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• No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.

  Atul Gawande

  School, Thinking, Medical

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• If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

  Andrew Lansley

  Top Down, Gps, Serious

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• Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.

  Andrew Lansley

  Fall, Blood, Years

  "An open, transparent NHS is a safer NHS" by Andrew Lansley, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Quality, Reform, Benefits

  "My Open Letter on Health Insurance Reform" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2009.

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• Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

  John Green

  Parent, Matter, Faster

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• I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Winning, Nba

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• I've been at stand-up 26 years now: After a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

  Emo Philips

  Years, Gynecologists, Enjoy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.

  George Herbert

  Littles

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

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• I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Numbers, Care

  "VA scandal 'a gift from God' because it showed Americans how bad Obamacare will be, conservative commentator Ben Carson says" by Francesca Chambers, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 25, 2014.

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• I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Thinking, Keys

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

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• 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

  Decision, Emotion, Study

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• Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

  Jason Epstein

  Distance, Editors, Intimacy

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• Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.

  Alan Bennett

  Remember You, Remembers You, People

  Alan Bennett (2011). “Smut: Two Unseemly Stories”, p.39, Profile Books

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