Florence Nightingale Quotes

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person's life that is so hyper-acute, and not just because they're medically ill. It's also a moment of hope and expectation and concern.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

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.

My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.

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.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

My advice to the Sultan is to build hospitals for sick Muslims, with a staff of physicians and attendants who will cure them and minister to their needs

Health has its science as well as disease

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

As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"

It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.

If you haven’t noticed the Canadians, when they need a big operation, when something happens, they come into the United States in many cases because their system is so slow. It’s catastrophic in certain ways.

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.