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“I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.”

Thinking Way Today Pain Lasts Century Changed Amount Treats Patient Cancer Enormous Relief Providing Physicians Psychics Solace Pain Relief Treating Patients

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.”

Pain Form Waiting Ability Happened Birth Patient Uncertainty Tension Something New Endurance Willingness Unfolding Coexist Unknowing

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.”

Self Pain Life Is Higher Patient Seeking Immortality Immortal Conquest Comradeship Immortal Life

Author:Francis Quarles

“I have seen how patients with arthritis, crippled for years, have left their crutches and beds and walked.at the biological clinics (Europe). After a few days or weeks of simple and harmless treatments, the pain from which they suffered for years disappeared and their joints became mobile and flexible again.”

Years Pain Left Simple Week Bed Europe Patient Treatment Flexible Joints Mobile Crippled Crutches Clinic Arthritis

Author:Paavo Airola

“The Son of God goes forth to war,A kingly crown to gain;His blood red banner streams afar:Who follows in His train?Who best can drink his cup of woe,Triumphant over pain,Who patient bears his cross below,He follows in His train.”

War Pain Blood Son Bears Drink Gains Red Crosses Train Patient Cups Streams Crowns Woe Banner Triumphant Afar

Book:Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year

Source: Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year

“It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.”

Pain Drug Patient Killing Mood Impression Therapy Injury

Author:John E. Sarno

“We should listen less to the opinions of those who either overtly promote or stubbornly reject complementary and alternative medicine without acceptable evidence. The many patients who use complementary and alternative medicine deserve better. Patients and healthcare providers need to know which forms are safe and effective. Its future should (and hopefully will) be determined by unbiased scientific evaluation.”

“... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.”

Mind Pain Powerful Ultimate Patient Impression Therapy Injury Subconscious Surgery Effectiveness Subconscious Mind Placebo

Author:John E. Sarno

“Some patients do seem to have some kind of post-infection meltdown. They don't still have an infection any more in any sense that we understand infection. But someone is going to have to explain these patients to me someday.”

Kind Stills Seems Pain Patient Posts Therapy Injury Someday Infection Meltdowns

Author:Mark Crislip

“A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain.”

Reason Problem Pain Patient Therapy Injury Therapists Reminding Knowledgeable Reassuring Physical Therapist

Author:John E. Sarno

“The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as ridiculous as it is insulting to everyone in healthcare who does his/her best to meet the needs of their patients. The assumption that unproven or disproven treatments become acceptable simply because they are often administered in a kind and caring fashion is quite simply not true.”

Needs Kind Doe Art Able Pain Fashion Medicine Notion Patient Caring Ridiculous Therapy Assumption Injury Treatment Healthcare Acceptable Insulting Integrated

Author:Edzard Ernst

“We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.”

Ifs Giving Sometimes Use Pain Friends Ought Benefits Musician Medicine Patient Improvement Preserves Pleasant Chords Biting

Book:Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto

Source: Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto

“I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.”

“Hasn't anyone thought to look at outcomes as a logical way to figure out what really works? Not until recently. That tells you how far out of the picture the patient has been.”

Way Looks Has Beens Pain Figures Patient Therapy Outcomes Injury Logical

Book:Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

“Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.”

Pain Simple Powerful Evidence Tradition Doctors Patient Being True Therapy Injury Ingredients Contracts Surgery Intervention Very Powerful Time Spent Back Pain

Book:Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign