Ben Carson Quotes

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

Find a doctor who cares about you, because a big part of health care is caring.

I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it.

We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.

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.

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

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

Helping someone is what life is all about.

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

People need to have compassion for others.

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

We can't turn our back on people who need help.

All should take care of the sick