Suicide ends for some patients so others call survival a feat – teamwork.

Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.

Before you diagnose any sickness, make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart. For the emotions in a man’s moon or sun, can point to the sickness in any one of his...

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.

Before you treat a man with a condition, know that not all cures can heal all people. For the chemistry that works on one patient may not work for the next, because even medicine has...

mummy bags”, subjected to insulin-induced hypoglycemic comas, forced into seizures with massive doses of the stimulant Metrazol, injected with camphor, drugged into three-week comas with barbiturates and tranquilizers, involuntarily sterilized, and surgically mutilated. Rape by...

Let’s not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts.

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

Who gets to be the judge of reality? If it was deeply felt, believed, spoken about often or altered your life course, then it was real enough. Faith doesn’t get the luxury of all those...

Get the hell off your ass, stop feeling sorry for yourself. Walk down the hall with that Physical Therapist so you can get on with your life!” A little anger in a person can push...

One day all the memories die , Be patient …

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

I couldn’t be a doctor. I have no patience for patients, like I do silly puns. But I could be a barista, because I love coffee like I love sex—and that’s why I pay for...

In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no...

I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

Do you really think that you stop looking for a soulmate at our age? Do you honestly believe that God would stop caring about how much I needed it still, just because I am nearing...

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

Key message to all patients: Let go of all negativity and empower your body through your positivity.

We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in...

It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care...

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.