“We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.” LongRealPurposeResultsPatientReal LifeBeing RealNeuroticNeurosisActuality Book:General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology Source: General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
“There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.” SometimesSeemsPurposeWaitingResultsStrangeAll ThingsMethodPatientAccidentsProvidenceEmployedBe Patient Book:Mark Twain's Fables of Man Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man
“When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the systems most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.” HomeCareResultsConditionsProgramTreatsPatientAffairHealth CareExpensiveDepartmentMultipleVeteran Author:Ron Wyden
“Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.” ResultsEffortSeeingPatientUrgentUrgency Author:Ralph Marston
“A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.” KnowsMenShouldMotherOrderDiesStrongWishPrayerResultsVirtueHealthEqualDoctorsSickIntelligentPatientObedienceUnconsciousPhenomenonDeclineProjectionNursingArdentBeing EqualSick Man Author:Honore de Balzac