To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.
I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role. . . in fixing health care.
The gap between the inner and outer self is one I've found interesting, even essential, about the way we move through the world. In The Delivery Room, I enjoyed traveling back and forth between the perspectives of the patients and that of the therapist - with the irony that with your therapist, you are at least supposed to be your most authentic self.
If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.
We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.
With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").
My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.
My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.
We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.
I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.
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.
And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink. " Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol. '