Quotes about Patient

Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine, and Antinomian, on a contrary extremity and opposition, turn man into a block, and make him into a mere patient in the way to heaven.

Querry and Doctor Colin sat on the steps of the hospital in the cool of the early day. Every pillar had its shadow and every shadow its crouching patient.

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.

Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.