Quotes about Patients

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

After all, a person has only two hands, and these days there're too many patients and too few doctors.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

I was walking past the mental hospital the other day, and all the patients were shouting, "13...13...13." The fence was too high to see over, so I looked through a gap to see what was going on. Some idiot poked me in the eye with a stick, and they all started shouting "14...14...14." That's how I learnt to mind my own business!

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.