Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.

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.

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

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

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Today, the practice of medicine in an urban, technological society rarely provides either the time or the environment to encourage a doctor-patient relationship that promotes healing.

Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.

It is fundamental when you are a doctor for a good doctor-patient relationship.

I hide my emotions mainly because you don't want somebody to know that you feel sorry for them, because they will feel worse, or because you don't want someone to know or see your fear. If someone like a sick kid or a burn victim sees your fear, they respond to how you respond. And if you show them it's terrible, they will get upset. It's something I've learned over the years.

If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

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.

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.