Patient Treatment Quotes

Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people.

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.

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.

I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.

Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

My dad was a dentist; my mom managed his office.

You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS.

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.