Patient-Doctor Relationship Quotes

I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.

A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!"

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

As my mentor in Medical School, Dr William Strong taught me: Never wear a white coat; it separates you from a fellow human being. I never have from that day on. You are your patients guide, counselor, and defender, not their ruler and dictator.

Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.

I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.

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.

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

I have to be the only person in America who had a doctor say to him, 'Please don't put any more surgical gloves on your head and inflate them.'

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

You can go into a psychiatrist sometimes and just feel that this person's only role and their only desire is to write you a prescription, get a check and send you out the door.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II.

I don't believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief executive how to run a company. Personal and family matters, relationships between doctors and patients should not be within the purview of government.

What people really want to know from their doctor is, are you going to make me feel better? And what they really want to know from a president are, are you going to give me some security when it comes to my work? Because if I'm not working, my family is in trouble. And when I am working, the fact of the matter is, my whole family is doing better.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

A doctor does not ask about political views and opinions - that is how I understand my role.

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.'

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I'd say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

If you don't have a doctor that inspires you, no matter what you have, you should find one that does. Because I feel like my doctor helped me stay alive.