The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
~ Ramakrishna
Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.
~ John Ensign
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
~ Tom Brown
The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.
~ Marquis De Lafayette
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
~ Abraham Verghese
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.
~ Michael Porter
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
~ Giles Foden
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.
~ Joseph Murray
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
~ Lana Turner
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
~ André Gide
