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"There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself."
"Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth."
"When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse."
"There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host."
"Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients."
"The patient is the nucleus of the health care system."
"The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights."
"Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data."
"I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities."
"A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together."
"We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society."
"Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients."
"One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them."
"I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!"
"Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being."
"So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you."
"The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy."
"The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.'"
"How poor are they that have have not patients."
"It's very easy to not know the stuff that you should know about the patient when you're seeing them. It's much easier with an electronic system to find them, because it's all right there and it should be current."
