Patient Quotes - Page 3

• The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

  Tennessee Williams

  Patience, Lonely, Hurt

  Tennessee Williams (2010). “Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow  him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Boys, Childhood, Soul

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• The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Reading, Book, Knowing

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• Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

  Erving Goffman

  Meaningful, Groups, Pilots

  Erving Goffman (2017). “Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates”, p.17, Routledge

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• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

  Carl Levin

  Mistake, Damage Is Done, Medical

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• Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Darkness, Unions, Christ

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.271, Editora Dracaena

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• You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Writing, Reality, Earthquakes

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• The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

  Andreas Vesalius

  Art, Doctors, Medicine

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• You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn't going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You're going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They're not going to buy it unless they know about it.

  Herb Kelleher

  Crazy, Ideas, People

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• Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

  Carlos Slim

  Yield, Optimism, Rewards

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• So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Doctors, Abortion, Republican

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• We wait for the tortoises to come.  We wait for that lady who walks them.  That’s how art works.  It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse.  It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets.  We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.

  Pat Conroy

  Art, Waiting, Secret

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• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Generations, Care, Today

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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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Healing, Mean, Imperfection

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• When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

  Josh Gates

  Important, Hospitals

  Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Shooting, World

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.1, New Riders

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• Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.

  Linus Pauling

  Drug, Training, Vitamins

  Linus Pauling (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”

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• Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cutting, Winning, Medicine

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• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

  Jack Vance

  Challenges, Deception, Fleeting

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• The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

  Abraham Verghese

  Average, Physicians, Healthcare

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• Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

  Khalil Gibran

  Doubt, Be Patient, Born

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• The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

  William Stewart Halsted

  Science, Medicine, Weapons

  Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 23: 191 (1912)

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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Years, Play, Knowing

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