Clinical Practice Quotes

#1. Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.
The Nature of Emotions (2001)

Robert Plutchik

#2. In my clinical practice, the one diagnosis I always dreaded giving was Alzheimer's. Billions have been spent on research, but there's still neither a cure nor an effective treatment.

Michael Greger

#3. As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

Robert Jarvik

#4. It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

Rollo May

#5. For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.

John Hutton

#6. If you see the light at the end
of the tunnel, you're looking
through binoculars the wrong
way

Josh Stern

#7. Reflect and pause before you delve into a solution.

Maria Lynch

#8. Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Jack Kerouac

#9. I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

Robert Jarvik

#10. To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

Zora Neale Hurston

#11. Never use a warning when you mean undo.

Aza Raskin

#12. Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.

Sharon Salzberg

#13. We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

Paul Dudley White

#14. Phone is no longer simply a method of communicating with others, but a thread of hope, a way of believing that you're not alone, a way of showing others how important you are.

Paulo Coelho

#15. It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.

Brian K. Vaughan

#16. Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine.

Eric Kandel

#17. Qhuinn gave in immediately, as he was categorically incapable of denying the female anything - most certainly not one of her hugs. They were even better than her lasagna.

J.R. Ward

#18. A recent study shows that one hundred per cent of youngsters on hard drugs had at some time in their lives listened to so-called pop music

William Donaldson

#19. Loss is a part of life, that doesn't make it easy ... that makes it inevitable ...

Marcus Harrison Green