“Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.” WorldWayHumansPlayHuman BeingsSawsBuildingPatientConsumers Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
“There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they're patient. They've been here for a long time, and they'll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands.” WayHumansLongMovingSpiritHuman BeingsWatchesBuddhismCivilizationLong TimePatientVery GoodIslandsHawaiiProtective Author:Frederick Lenz
“For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.” IfsGivingHumansArtSidesHuman BeingsPowerfulLowsConnectionsPatientSensesSensualityGiving InSensuousAtrophyPuritanismAnesthesia Author:Anais Nin
“According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.” HumansRealizingHuman BeingsPracticeTeachingNormalPatientScaredUncomfortableAnxious Author:Reb Anderson
“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.” ThinkingHumansHeartInterestHuman BeingsKeysFellowsMedicinePatientCuriosityEndeavorPhysiciansLimitlessGood Science Author:Abraham Verghese
“When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.” MenFeelsShouldHumansDoneMomentsLyingHuman BeingsClassFateHe ManOughtCircumstancesStandingDoctorsSickRegardMerePatientOccupationWorking ClassPulseTrifles Book:Diseases of Workers Source: Diseases of Workers