I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
Almásy: Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.
Katharine Clifton: You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.
Katharine Clifton: Am I K in your book? I think I must be.
Almásy: I am a just a bit of toast, my friend.
Almásy: When were you most happy? Katharine Clifton: Now. Almásy: And when were you least happy? Katharine Clifton: Now.
Almásy: New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire.
Almásy: I fear Madox knows about us, he keeps mentioning Anna Karenina
John Anderton: You set your patients on fire. Dr. Solomon: I put 'em out.
I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
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.
We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.
Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'
With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.
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.
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.
HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
