220 Patients Quotes for You to Enjoy

Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication. Andrew Weil

Life Today Depression Nature Those Significant Sedentary Physical Physical Activity Studies Exercise Stick Aerobic Role Improve Modern Human Patients Modern Life Regimen Depressed Epidemic Much Bodies Regular Show Incidence Who Many Activity Designed Medication Treated Plays

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. Carl Jung

Life Problem Half Resort Hundreds Say Those Finding Religious Outlook Over Been Patients Many Whose Among Second Last Treated

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave. Jeffrey Kluger

Respect Cause Will Narcissism Lose Status Admired Fact Since Liked Known Greater Narcissist Than Patients Being Psychologists Crave Social Them Might Fueled Use Therapeutic Actually Lever Need Stressing

A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow. Malala Yousafzai

People Doctor Treat Tomorrow Politician Scared Only Take Step Person Stop Patients Shot Help Who Injured Injuries

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. Dianne Feinstein

Today Health First Doctors Increasingly More Hospitals Shareholders Concentrated Industry Health Insurance Insurance Insurance Industry Fallen Cover Goal Foremost American Maximize Patients Where CEOs Paying Less Ill Who Medical Compensate Receive Services Profits

Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. Steve Gleason

Life Love Time Me You Experience People Difficult Think Other Everyone Spending Spending Time Ways Finding Purposeful Make Doing Human Just Rewarding Patients Human Experience Meaning Meaning Of Meaningful Activities

In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms. Barry Marshall

You World Treat School Everybody Symptoms Everything Out Possible Find No Idea Through Idea Most Real Causing Walking Get Quite Taught Patients Door The Real World Real World Then Your Medical Medical School

I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives. Bernie Siegel

Life Me Healing Words Cancer Made Other AIDS Relates Strictly Distinction Physical Leading Between Healed Always Condition Cured Curing May Represents Patients In Other Words Unhealthy Who Lives

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. Peter Singer

Patients want to be seen as people. For me, the person's life comes first; the disease is simply one aspect of it, which I can guide my patients to use as a redirection in their lives. When doctors look at their patients, however, they are trained to see only the disease. Bernie Siegel

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them. Carlos Santana

Depression Better Will Give More Affected Patients Them Choices Serve

Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining. Ezekiel Emanuel

You Conversation Will Patient Difficult Draining Hundreds Having Emotionally Been Scores Very Die Patients Tumor Dying Shrink Cared Treatment

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way. Jack Kevorkian

God You Natural Doctor Will Think Way Determines He Course Because Go Person Patients Happens Process Anytime Natural Process Asking Interfere Means Interference Naturally Ill Playing

Wearable technology will tell us how well we are sleeping and whether we need to exercise. Sensors in the street will help us avoid traffic jams and find parking. Telemedicine applications will allow physicians to treat patients who are hundreds of miles away. John T. Chambers

Technology Treat Will Sleeping Hundreds Tell Find Physicians Parking Allow Well Exercise How Traffic Patients Whether Sensors Us Miles Avoid Help Who Away Street Applications Need

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. Nellie Bly

Silence Madness Live Eat Something Mysterious Missing Without Perpetual Exist Forever Lips Human Patients Form Cannot Which Breathe Human Form Body Sealed Whose Thing Watched

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. Nellie Bly

Thoughts World Fate Mind Made Hopeless Sit Busy Months Several Sewing Asylum Over Faint Employ Does Prisoners Patients Confinement Clothing After Ponder Poor Grow

My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories. Pierre Omidyar

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. Thomas Szasz

Men Past Mental Witches Patients In The Past Create Created Now

Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?' Yuvraj Singh

Best Me Inspire Cancer Thought Down Say Would Some Taking Chemotherapy Line Were Years Lot Cured Maybe Taught Patients Happened Realise Elderly Now Why Right Thing Things

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients. Abraham Verghese

Trials See Take Instead Effectiveness Just Patients Ask Create Incentives Works Comparative Lets Away Need

My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.' Abraham Verghese

Death Time Good Me Free Half Lesson Believe Shall Glass Generous Over Perhaps Half Full Make Said Years Dominion Deceased Taught Patients Then Use Full

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam. Abraham Verghese

Exam Know Heartbeat Getting Patients Clumsy

Patients Quotes

No more patients quotes