When A Patient Dies Quotes

#1. As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.

Paul Kalanithi

#2. Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.

H.L. Mencken

#3. If Every-day People Could Use Athletes' Excuses (Surgeon, after patient dies: "I don't know. I just came out a little flat. You can't get hyped up every single day.")

Rick Reilly

#4. Love has a timeframe all of its own and love never dies. It is eternal. There is no end. There is no rush. There is no hurrying it. It waits patiently. It waits because it knows that there is no end and that like the sea it comes and goes.

Kate McGahan

#5. Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,

Anthony Atala

#6. A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

John Taylor

#7. We, too, consider machine gun bullets good laxatives for heathens who get constipated with toxic ideas about a country of their own. If the patient dies from the treatment, it was not because the medicine was not good.

Zora Neale Hurston

#8. A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. No," De Roos said. "You mustn't thank me. The relatives of patients thank the physician as if the physician were God. It's no good, and if the patient dies it turns to ash - not just for them, but, as you can imagine, for me. I'll see you later.

Mark Helprin