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"I think you have moments of doubt and moments where it feels really hard. You certainly have to be patient, and I'm a very impatient person. It's been like when Yoda teaches Luke to be a Jedi; the things that I do professionally have taught me new levels of patience."
"A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive."
"Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures."
"The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic"
"There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward."
"Be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes."
"Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster."
"Were all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists havent been caught yet."
"Love made her patient. It made her hopeful."
"I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other."
"I'm not the most patient of people..."
"...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well."
