Quentin Blake Quotes

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essential relationships that I find to be as important to nurture as any other relationship in your life. Without your health, you have nothing.

I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

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

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

If the people in the emergency room didn't know my name, they definitely knew my face because I was in there, like, every other week. I was one of those kids.

If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion, I'd still be in Nova Scotia.

It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.

My wife is a doctor at a veteran's hospital.

Medical attention is medical attention, whether it's for your elbow or for your teeth or for your brain. And it's important.

I get treatment every day, just to keep on top of my body and help me recover, and it's really helped me a lot.

Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

After a performance at Hosadurga, I was struggling with severe gastroenteritis, for which I took multiple injections to ease the pain. But when it wouldn't abate, I got hospitalized, and that is when the heart issues were found out.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?