#patients

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#beef #boiled #butter #choke #consumed

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#city #enter #further #gaze #heaven

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#civil #clean #clean water #critical #destitute

I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, 'My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.' I feel like I would clean up with patients. That's kind of a cocky thing to say. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#clean up #cocky #doctor #feel #had

We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet. ↗

— Max Walker

#between #caught #crazy #difference #haven

I don’t understand hospital chaplains that try to rob my patients of their anger. Sometimes anger is a key motivator that gets people to take action. Anger can push a cancer patient to jump out of his hospital bed, walk down to the nurses station and scream, “I am getting the hell out of here!”. There is a misconception that God is simply sweet and passive. Actually, God can be quite cunning, manipulative and relentless with his children. What we consider as negative traits are actually helpful in molding us. He will use a negative emotion if needed to push people to do things that will change them for the better. He will allow people or situations to derail us if there is a chance that those interactions will push us forward. Personally, I don’t want a God that is going to send some church member to my deathbed with a plate of cookies and tell me to have faith. Actually, I rather have a God that screams, “Get the hell off your ass, stop feeling sorry for yourself. Walk down the hall with that Physical Therapist so you can get on with your life!" A little anger in a person can push them to do amazing things. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#anger #answers #challenges #desire #drive

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country. ↗

— Charlie Norwood

#aged care #been #care #country #fact

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#i #impact #influences #information #like

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients. ↗

— John Malkovich

#patients #psychiatrist #treating

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#baby #come #doctor #going #i