The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.
I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do. -Greg House
I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.
