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Patients Quotes

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine Picture Quote #1

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning Picture Quote #1

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing Picture Quote #1

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me Picture Quote #1

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one’s patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful Picture Quote #1

Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I’m pretty safe Picture Quote #1

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I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education Picture Quote #1

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being Picture Quote #1

Let’s not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don’t die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm Picture Quote #1

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients Picture Quote #1

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age Picture Quote #1

As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems Picture Quote #1

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I understand what it’s like to go to hospitals and there’s no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion Picture Quote #1

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure Picture Quote #1

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn’t you rather meet the doctor than a machine? Picture Quote #1

Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don’t live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile Picture Quote #1

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can’t touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep Picture Quote #1

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate Picture Quote #1

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Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees Picture Quote #1

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives Picture Quote #1

If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it’s on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone comes into a doctor. But beyond those touchpoints, the patients are on their own. There’s no real continuity of care Picture Quote #1

I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven’t met. This is about letting patients play a more active role... in fixing health care Picture Quote #1

My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved Picture Quote #1

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them Picture Quote #1

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Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure Picture Quote #1

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they’d be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments Picture Quote #1

One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen Picture Quote #1

The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine (Patients Quotes) Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning (Patients Quotes) What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing (Patients Quotes) I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me (Patients Quotes) The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one’s patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful (Patients Quotes) Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I’m pretty safe (Patients Quotes) I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education (Patients Quotes) Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being (Patients Quotes) Let’s not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don’t die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm (Patients Quotes) There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients (Patients Quotes) We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age (Patients Quotes) As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems (Patients Quotes) I understand what it’s like to go to hospitals and there’s no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion (Patients Quotes) By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure (Patients Quotes) Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn’t you rather meet the doctor than a machine? (Patients Quotes) Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don’t live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile (Patients Quotes) Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can’t touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep (Patients Quotes) I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate (Patients Quotes) Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees (Patients Quotes) The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives (Patients Quotes) If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it’s on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone comes into a doctor. But beyond those touchpoints, the patients are on their own. There’s no real continuity of care (Patients Quotes) I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven’t met. This is about letting patients play a more active role... in fixing health care (Patients Quotes) My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved (Patients Quotes) It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them (Patients Quotes) Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure (Patients Quotes) Nineteen percent of doctors say that they’d be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments (Patients Quotes) One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen (Patients Quotes) The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae (Patients Quotes) 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 (Patients Quotes) 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 (Patients Quotes)

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