I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.
Al Alvarez
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
Bernard Berenson
My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.
Atul Gawande
Patients have the right to help themselves.
James Heywood
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
Andrew Lansley
I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.
John Malkovich
Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
Virginia Postrel
But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.
Debi Thomas
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
Siddhartha Mukherjee