“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.” ThinkingWayTodayPainLastsCenturyChangedAmountTreatsPatientCancerEnormousReliefProvidingPhysiciansPsychicsSolacePain ReliefTreating Patients Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.” GoalTechnologyBloodDrugDiseaseTreatsPatientDecadesTrialsCellsDiabetesClinicalsParkinsonParkinson'sClinical Trials Author:Shinya Yamanaka
“A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.” FoolTreatsPatientPhysicians Author:William Osler
“It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.” LongDrugPercentTreatsPatientCancerAppropriateDiagnosisCancer Patients Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
“Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery.” PeopleLongMatterRememberPoliticianTreatsPatientForgottenMedicalGuaranteesFedsFalsehoodTreacheryAlzheimerUntruthAlzheimer's Author:James Bovard
“You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.” ShouldStillsDrugTreatsPatientHealStatistics Author:Armand Trousseau
“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
“Marijuana is not addictive. People are the addicts and they will find a substance or a belief that will feed the addiction they need to make their day go away. Meaning one looks for a substance that allows them not to live with who and what they really are. To stop addiction we must treat the patient and stop blaming everyone and everything else but the abuser.” PeopleNeedsLooksBeliefTreatsBlamePatientAddictionSubstanceGoing AwayMarijuanaAddictAbusers Author:Steven Machat
“An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps more than the allopath does because the Homoeopath does not disturb the patients but allows the nature to deal with them.” GivingDoeDealsTreatsMedicinePatientCuresCholeraHomeopathy Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Homoeopathic treatment is my first choice not only for me but also for my family. Homoeopathy should be developed as full- fledged alternative system of medicine. More research and more development are essential to make Homoeopathy more popular and useful Homoeopath treats their patients in more compassionate way. Homoeopathy is second largest system of medicine being practiced in India.” WayShouldFirstsChoicesDevelopmentEssentialsResearchMy FamilyTreatsIndiaMedicinePatientAlternativesTreatmentCompassionateHomeopathy Author:K. R. Narayanan
“The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.” BelieveWholeChallengesFoolDemandDiseaseEvidenceTreatsClaimsPatientAlternativesLabelsParadiseProtectedQuackery Author:Edzard Ernst
“One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.” ShouldDoeEnjoyPoorFateUltimateTreatsPatientCuresResortsBe PatientDrastic Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we definitely want to treat whatever else is going on, but insomnia often because it becomes its own diagnosis and that requires its own treatment.” KnowsWantLooksKidsCausesTreatsPatientTreatmentInsomniaDiagnosis Author:Shelby Harris
“So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So what we'll tend to do in our sleep lab is we'll do a thorough evaluation and we usually have myself, who is a Psychologist and a Sleep Behavioral Sleep Specialist, I treat the patients first.” IfsWantFirstsStillsPainSleepTreatsPatientManageInsomniaPsychologistThoroughLabsSpecialistsEvaluationChronic Pain Author:Shelby Harris
“It's just hard to look at yourself and guess how you're going to be perceived by other people sometimes. I do my best to let people know that I'm approachable, but I'm a human being just like anybody else. Sometimes people forget that. They forget that you're a person and they treat you like this celebrity thing. But I have to be patient with that, and I try to be.” PeopleKnowsTryingHumansLooksPersonsSometimesHardHuman BeingsForgetTreatsPatientBe PatientLook At Yourself Author:Joan Jett
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” DiseaseTreatsMedicinePatientMedicalPhysiciansPractice Of MedicineMedical EducationTreating Patients Author:William Osler
“What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsSaidRealPlayGamesBehindsViolenceDangerTreatsPatientLabelsDiagnosisTherapistsBorderline Author:Irvin D. Yalom
“Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he's trying to tell you, you just might reach him. (87)” IfsTryingBelieveIdeasMightI BelieveSkillsTreatsPatientI Believe InRadicalTherapyInterpersonalInterpersonal SkillsRadical Ideas Author:Dennis Lehane
“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it” ShouldSufferingHealthDiseaseTreatsMedicinePatientMedicalPhysiciansNursingMedical Care Book:Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma Source: Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma
“I'd never understood how Carlisle was able to do that - ignore the blood of his patients in order to treat them. Wouldn't the constant temptation be so distracting, so dangerous? But now, I could see how, if you were focusing on something else hard enough, the temptation was be nothing at all.” IfsHardEnoughAbleOrderBloodDangerousUnderstoodTreatsConstantPatientTemptation Author:Stephenie Meyer
“I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.” YearsPersonsHelpingEyeSchoolEarthScienceForgetWorryConditionsStudentsCoupleYears AgoDoctorsTreatsLuckPatientMedicalHealBest TimesMedical School Author:Joseph Murray
“Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era of managed care. Seven psychiatric disorders are described and conceptualized in cognitive-behavioral terms. The authors then provided an unusually clear, reader-friendly description of how to assess and treat each disorder with illustrative case examples, and patient forms and handouts. It should prove very useful for clinicians or clinicians-in-training who want to learn how to conduct short-term treatment through an empirically validated approach.” WantShouldCareFormTermCasesClearPlansExampleReaderProveEssentialsAnxietyApproachTrainingTreatsSevenPatientErasDescriptionTreatmentFriendlyDisorderInterventionShort TermCognitiveGuidelinesPsychiatricHandoutsCliniciansAnxiety DisorderPsychiatric DisordersDepression And Anxiety Author:Judith S. Beck
“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.” MenShouldLooksDoeWisdomWiseMankindTreatsSickAngryMadPatientIllLook UpPhysiciansFeverExtravagantIntemperance Author:Seneca the Younger
“Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people.” PeopleBodyUsedBloodAdultsResourcesTreatsPatientCellsAlternativesDiverseStemNeglectedCordsStem Cell Author:Jim Ryun