Roald Dahl Quotes

If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication.

If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.

I've been operated on 13 times.

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.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

Doctors are fantastic, but they err on the side of caution. But you can push yourself. You're not going to die from pain.

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

I like being on the side of healthcare consumer.

The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.

I've had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.

As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that as a physician I am capable of forcing someone to change their behavior, no matter how detrimental to their health.

I've had at least a couple botched surgeries.

I am so worried about my shoulder, which aches now as I write. The pain is frightening because of its intensity. I want so much to get rid of this pain. I must be strong. I must be strong.

When I was about nine, I was rushed to hospital to have my appendix removed. Like any child, I was more concerned about missing out on having fun with my friends than my health.