#patient

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#care #come #companies #compete #competition

We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#care #choices #data #does #efficient

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, Jr.

#attack #be patient #because #cleverness #courage

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#patients #present #protecting #shambles #system

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

— Angie Harmon

#good #i #me #never #pain

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#dreamed #except #feel #freeze #had

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#been #companies #give #give me #i

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. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#appetite #cold #english #hollywood #mountain

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. ↗

— Craig Raine

#arrive #diseases #great #impatient #irresistible

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#battle #be patient #blessed #brethren #continue