Patient Quotes - Page 29

• Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

  John Wooden

  Appreciation, Hard Work, Long

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.20, Gospel Light Publications

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• When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.

  Anthony Atala

  Body, Doe, Different

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• My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

  Grete Waitz

  Philosophy, Expression, Use

  Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2015). “Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In the end we must be merciful to the fallen, show grace to struggling, and be patient with the doubting. But when God's Word is clear we must not-and we cannot-back up, back off, back down, back out, or backslide from the truth.

  Rick Warren

  Struggle, Grace, Doubt

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• If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

  Michel Onfray

  Philosophy, Cancer, Suffering

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• I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

  Charles Jencks

  Cancer, Thinking, Want

  "Maggie's Centres: can architecture cure cancer?" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

  Charles Jencks

  Believe, Exercise, Way

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• As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

  Bernie Siegel

  Doctors, Desire, Our Words

  "The Power of Words: Revising the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'

  Bernie Siegel

  Cancer, Boys, Doctors

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• Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Book, Son, Doctors

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• I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

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• Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

  Ben Goldacre

  Doctors, Data, Decision

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• A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.

  Sheri Fink

  Healthy, Needs, Might

  "Kidney Patients Face Dialysis Rationing" by Sheri Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

  Ralph Marston

  Effort, Results, Urgent

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• The best way of thinking of an attachment in my view, is to see it as the outcome of an interaction between two people, each of whom contributes to the quality of the relationship. Most parents can promote a secure relationship with a calm, pleasant, patient baby. Only particularly sensitive and patient parents can promote a secure attachment to a difficult baby.

  Sandra Scarr

  Baby, Thinking, Attachment

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• The brand of the future...is patient, consistent, connected, and trusted. The new brand is based on the truth that only comes from experiencing the product, not just yelling about it. Word of mouth is more important (by a factor of 20) than TV advertising, and the remarkability word of mouth demands comes from what we experience, not from spin or taglines or a campaign slogan.

  Seth Godin

  Yelling, Important, Campaigns

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• Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Patience, Logic, Eternal

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• When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1983). “Diseases of workers”

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• The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

  Burton J. Hendrick

  Brother, Physicians, Firsts

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• It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Confused, Firsts, Causes

  Samuel Rutherford (1848). “Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar”, p.617

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• There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

  Allan Hamilton

  Emotional, Get Better, Energy

  "A Soulful Surgeon". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com.

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• My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

  Merry Clayton

  Mother, Children, Genes

  "Singers Merry Clayton & Darlene Love". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 07, 2014.

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• Many young girls are ... becoming trained nurses,
  whose gentle ministrations in the sick-room, skilled touch,
  patient watchfulness and unwearied vigils,
  are as great factors in the care of the sick,
  as are the professional physicians.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Girl, Nurse, Sick

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• ...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

  Norman Doidge

  Mind, Helping, Needed

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.221, Penguin

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• The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1020, Delphi Classics

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