Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one’s ability to see what needs...
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. — Hans...
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit....
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn’t got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr....
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient. — Patrick Soon-Shiong Tags: #Medical, #Doctor, #Patient, #PatrickSoon-Shiong, #SouthAfrican, #BusinessmanMini who’s who: Patrick...