Patient Trust Quotes

A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

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.

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided.

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

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 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.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.

We are guests in our patients' lives.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

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

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

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

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.

Medication without explanation is obscene.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.