Patient Well-Being Quotes

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.

We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping them get back to health.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

I'm training to become a giggle doctor. It's a kind of hospital clown who changes the atmosphere on the ward and helps recovery. It's about making patients laugh but also much more.

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

A lot of medical problems are solved if doctors are nice to patients. If you can make them think positive, you may not need medication.

I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

I want to be clear: not all patient communities are great, any more than online communities of any sort. But when a good one gets going, boy is it sweet.

People have the right to know the drugs they are taking will make them better instead of harming them.

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.