Alan Watts Quotes

The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.

Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to think about care.

The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.

Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

When I opened my solo practice, I made it a priority to put my patients' experience first and foremost. This involves making them feel comfortable, both literally and figuratively.

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.

We have to rethink, how do we get a complete 360-degree understanding of the patient?

The patient is the nucleus of the health care system.

We are guests in our patients' lives.

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

It's really interesting for me as a filmmaker to go back and look at the films I've made and see where I was at that point in my life and also where my ideals were and the beliefs that I had and look at the ways I've grown and evolved and apply that to the next thing.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

There really is no such thing as a sick child; there are children who happen to be sick. Think about it, and you will understand the magic of the Camps

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.

The way to become boring is to say everything.