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Letter "P" » patients
«Cystoscopies gastroscopies biopsies. They can do three or four of those and make five or six hundred dollars in a single day but we get nothing when we use our time to understand the lives of our patients.»
«One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.»
«A person often catches a cold when a mother-in-law comes to visit. Patients mentioned mothers-in-law so often that we came to consider them a common cause of disease in the United States.»
«He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.»
«I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients»
«HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration. Then, having diagnosed each one's condition, His scriptural specifics this physician Administered --his pills so efficacious And pukes of disposition so vivacious That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam Were convalescent ere they knew they had 'em. But Slander's tongue --itself all coated --uttered Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered That in the case of patients having money The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey. --_Biography of Bishop Potter_»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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Parsons,
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scriptural,
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slander,
specifics,
sugar,
The Spiritual,
uttered,
vivacious
«I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among [those] in the second half of life-that is to say, over 35-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
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Founder,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
hundreds,
last half,
last resort,
outlook,
patients,
religious,
resort,
resorted,
resorting,
second half,
that is to say,
The Last Resort,
The Second,
treated
«He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.»
«Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last. (October 27, 1964)»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(
President)
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Keywords:
assault,
business community,
clients,
conveying,
crocodile,
crocodiles,
customers,
family business,
feeding,
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invasion,
issues,
October,
October 27,
patients,
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socializing,
studying,
The Crocodile,
The Crocodiles,
The Doctor,
The Doctors
«Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.»
Author: Susan Sontag
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Activist,
Critic,
Writer)
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About:
Cancer
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Keywords:
abominable,
Cancer,
Death sentence,
ill-omened,
lied,
obscene,
original meaning,
patients,
repugnant,
sentenced to death