Patient Relationship Quotes

#1. The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

Irving Kirsch

#2. I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

Bob McDonnell

#3. Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed ... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

Donald Berwick

#4. Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

Fred Upton

#5. I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

Abraham Verghese

#6. While someday the computerization of medicine will surely be that long-awaited "disruptive innovation," today it's often just plain disruptive: of the doctor-patient relationship, of clinicians' professional interactions and work flow, and of the way we measure and try to improve things. I

Robert Wachter

#7. I suppose the doctor-patient relationship has that idea of transference. I think it's a special thing that doctors have. We all find doctors sexy. That's why there are so many TV shows about doctors.

Michael Fassbender

#8. Good interviewers share three features. They . . . obtain the greatest amount of accurate information relevant to diagnosis and management, in the shortest period of time, consistent with creating and maintaining a good working relationship (rapport) with the patient.

James Morrison

#9. Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

Jacob M. Appel

#10. In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

Kina Grannis

#11. A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?

Mary Papas

#12. F1s can only prescribe on in-patient drug cards and TTOs . The GMC's Good Medical Practice ( 2013 ) guidance states you should avoid providing medical care to yourself or anyone with whom you have a close personal relationship .

Oxford Handbook

#13. The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

#14. I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#15. There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#16. In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Michael Ondaatje

#17. No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#18. The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

David Ogilvy

#19. I can be patient, but I am not God! Don't take me for granted, or you will spend your life gathering my scattered self!

Shilpa Sandesh

#20. The erosion of an effective patient-physician relationship has no place when dealing with chronic pain. Worst of all, dismissing the patient's pain is as devastating as crushing a patient's hope.

Melissa Cady

#21. We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

Abraham Verghese

#22. In the European Union, the relationship between politicians and the fishing industry has become like that of a doctor assisting the suicide of a patient.

Callum Roberts

#23. Love seeks the best. Love endures all times. Love never changes.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. In my research about the patient-therapist relationship, as well as the particular

Lisa Unger

#25. He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise was key.

Eileen Wilks