Patient Quotes

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.

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

My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

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

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

The patient is in intensive care but still alive.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

I'm usually a patient guy anyway.

Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

The patient decides when it's best to go.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

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.

The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

Keep your head up and be patient.

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.