“There is something not quite right about letting a patient dictate whether or not they take medicine. Are mental patients the people to whom we should be leaving the decisions?”
William Schultz
“I have better rapport with the patient, because I'm not reaching for things on the machine. Patients also like the ?high-tech' aspect and feel like they're really being scanned on a top-of-the-line system, which gives them even more confidence that they're getting a quality exam.”
Cindy Owen
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease”
William Osler
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.”
“I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I finally replied "so are all my heterosexual patients";”
Ernest van den Haag
“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients”
Oscar Levant
