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When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals‘ Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
I’m not the most patient person in the world. I am one of the most persistent people in the world.
In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won’t do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.
It’s a combination of how much efforts you put in, how much you’re working on a daily basis on your goals and it also has to do with a bit of luck. It’s difficult but you’ve to be very patient. The main thing is perseverance.
He instilled in me to be patient and understanding – my father would always hold me accountable, he taught me the importance of following things through, being responsible.
Increasingly we know that we’re going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who’s got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.
Manchester United is a great club. I am very happy to be here, and because of this, I am happy to be patient.
Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
Motherhood hasn’t changed me much but the only difference I feel is that I have become more patient.
One thing I learned in my career is to be patient.
I’ve always known how patient I’ve been because I’ve been patient with pretty much everything from early life until now.
I have learnt to be even more patient.
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven’t made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.
If I’m at the front line and refuse to treat a patient, it’s considered a crime. As a physician, this is my oath. I’m going to treat everyone regardless.
I’m not the most patient of people.
It was tough mentally at Chelsea, obviously not getting the game time. I had to be really patient and have the mentality to still train right and do all the right things.
I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.
I am a retired United States Marine Corporal and I started out in 2nd Battalion Night Marines on my deployment and I finished my career in the Marine Corps at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as a patient.
Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.
We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.
The bottom line is that Ebola is hard to treat, and when the first patient ever with Ebola came to the United States, we thought the guidelines would protect the health care workers.
President Obama has argued there isn’t a threat of terrorism from the U.S. refugee program because for individuals who apply it takes two years, ‘heavy vetting’ and is a relatively long process. It doesn’t matter. Jihad is patient, and as ISIS has pledged, it will do whatever it takes to get the job done.
One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
The patient decides when it’s best to go.
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.
When people say there is a ‘reason’ for the depression, they insult the person who suffers, making it seem that those in agony are somehow at fault for not ‘cheering up.’ The fact is that those who suffer – and those who love them – are no more at fault for depression than a cancer patient is for a tumor.
The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.
Genomics, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Machine learning technologies are helping practitioners deliver better diagnosis and actually freeing up time for patient interaction.
All my mom’s side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they’re patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them.
I’m not a patient person.
The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.
Historically, I’m not a great patient when it comes to slowing down.
I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
It was very tough to be patient.
You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks.
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
The English Patient’ is about the coming together of a French–Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.
Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.
I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.
In particularly acute cases of depression, it is recognized that no verbal or therapeutic intervention will reach the patient. The only effective remedy is to do things, even though the patient will, at that time, believe that any act is pointless and meaningless.
As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
You have to be patient: trust the team, that they can deliver a good job.
In the U.A.E., the wickets are on the slower side. You can’t play through the line; you need to take your time and be patient.
What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.
I’m a very competitive person, but at the same time, as a quarterback, you gotta be poised; you gotta be very poised and patient. I’m pretty loose and relaxed, but I’m also very competitive.
It might be a slow process reaching to the top but I am patient. I don’t want to get into something that I am not completely convinced about.
Continuity is a great thing; staying the course and being patient, those are important virtues. But also there is virtue in being realistic enough to know you have to make serious changes sometimes.
I’m not a very patient person in general.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Obviously it’s always hard when you tell a patient you can’t help them, because maybe it’s a physical constraint with the surgery, but in regards to telling a patient that they’re not realistic and they’re not appropriate psychological candidates, we’re pretty used to it.
I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.
Be patient and always keep persevering.
I have learnt to become patient as an actor.
Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.
Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
I feel like I’m calmer, I’m kinder, I’m more patient the more I do my own meditation.
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
My mom was a bit more excitable, but my dad was the most patient man I’ve ever met.
For the first six years of his career, Sammy Sosa was one of the least patient players in the game. He could hit the long ball and steal a base, but he was undisciplined.
The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick.
Sometimes you have to wait. Sometimes you have to be patient, and your chances will come.
I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill‘s doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.
The research indicates that when we women invest, we women do tend to be more patient, take a longer-term perspective and as a result of it, tend to be better investors than men. But the messages we get are that investing is sort of ‘the guys’ world.’
It’s not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long way. Show some love, be patient, and this world will be a much better place.
My dad is one of the sweetest human beings around. He’s so patient with people and has so many ideas that he’s so much fun to work with.
There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.
I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It’s not a boring way to describe me.
As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn’t trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
My father is an action director from 35-40 years and I’ve seen how things work in the industry all my life and I was being patient to get the right opportunities and not rush to take up anything.
My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.
I discovered I’m a lot more patient than I thought I’d be. It takes a lot to shake me.
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
I’ve learnt to be more patient, more comfortable on the ball, and the number of goals I’ve scored, I’m happy.
I try to create an environment where it’s okay to make a mistake, though it’s not okay to be unfocused or come in unprepared. I’m challenging and demanding, but very patient. I don’t tell you how to get there and I don’t show you what to do, though I’ll ask leading questions.
Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.
For me, I think that there’s a lot missing from the recovery or the post-diagnosis side of treating patients. Once the diagnosis is made, I feel that care drops off tremendously, even though it is precisely the time that a patient needs help the most, even if they are not verbalizing it.
I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.
I became very patient. There are a lot of times when people who do not like you are talking about you and telling bad things on your face. In our personal life, we do get affected by such things.
I’m getting better and better each year that I’m playing golf on the world stage, and finishing runner-up only teaches you how to continue being patient – something that is key to our game.
I have to be patient, keep performing, and be consistent.
If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.
Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.
If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
You do have to be patient. Control what you can control.
Imagine someone who has had a heart attack on the street, and they are picked up by an ambulance with 5G connectivity, hi-definition scanners, and cameras… You start taking a scan in the ambulance so all of that data is transferred to the surgery before the patient arrives, and a diagnosis is already underway.
The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.
We all have this idea of Ram being a patient person besides being a great archer, a horse-rider, and above all, a compassionate king. There is more to him than that.
When ‘Ujda Chaman’ didn’t do well at the box office, I felt bad, but didn’t lose heart. Those who watched it on OTT, said nice things about my performance. It made me realise the importance of staying patient.
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
You’d believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don’t take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
Any patient who has a serious illness requiring multiple doctors understands the frustration of lost medical charts, repeated procedures, or having to share the same information over and over with different doctors and nurses.
Americans broadly consent to funding clinical research because they believe in the promise of medical research. But people support scientific work only if they trust that it serves societal interests, respects patient dignity and operates with guardrails.
Just follow your dreams and be patient.
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.
There’s a classic medical aphorism: ‘Listen to the patient; they’re telling you the diagnosis.’ Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions. But, yes, in both drama and medicine, isolated facts can accumulate to create the narrative.
Sexuality can be difficult to articulate, and we have to be patient and compassionate.
‘The English Patient’ was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
I want to be clear: not all patient communities are great, any more than online communities of any sort. But when a good one gets going, boy is it sweet.
He was a patient man, a kind man, a man who cared about animals and human beings, all qualities not to be devalued, but James Herriot was not a saint. I tried so hard to play against some of the scripts that implied that he was a saint, but I don’t think I was always altogether successful.
I’m not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don’t get it right or don’t respect others’ needs.
It’s easy to be patient because you have a guy in the room like Eli Manning who comes in every day, one of the first people in the building and one of the last ones to leave and he’s been in the league as long as he has. So that’s what it takes to continue to get better, and he sets the standard, and I need to reach it.
Being patient has made me a more precise fighter.
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient’s renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.
Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient’s mind.
There is no dignity without work. You can’t tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.
Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it’s no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.
We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.
You just become more mature as a human being, having a child. The stakes are a lot higher, things are different. It teaches you to be patient and it’s changed me a lot.
I sing everywhere. I have a very patient husband. He says he doesn’t mind. But we’ve only been married a year and a half!
There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we’ll be on top after all is said and done.
To the patient, any operation is momentous.
My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.
If there is one thing for which the ‘Real Housewives‘ franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.
The guys I came up with would always tell me that no matter if we’re up or down, if you go in, get in there and play hard. But just know that sometimes you just have to be patient and wait your turn.
I learned a lot: sometimes you have to be patient. Sometimes you have to take care of your body. Sometimes you have to learn from outside to be good in the future.
In finding love, I think it’s important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it’s important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.
Take heart, and be patient; change takes time but it is possible, and it’s way more likely if we can reach out and disagree without demonizing.
Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
Our party and the Republic‘s government will go hand in hand with anyone who truly desires the country’s reunification and the nation’s peaceful prosperity and will make responsible and patient efforts to accomplish the historic cause of the fatherland‘s reunification.
You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.
I am happy to be patient zero. It is for the world, for the sick children and sick old people. My life has been good. I understand the risks but I research how people die and I am happy to say that today I do not know how I will die now. Tomorrow or in the long future I was up for a change.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
I’m a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.
‘Meek‘s Cutoff’ by Kelly Reichardt – it’s beautifully shot. It’s a complex story. The filmmaker gave a very patient and feminine touch to a story that takes place during a period of history that’s very masculine, without losing any of the unforgiving harshness of the reality where the characters found themselves in.
My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.
The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it’s not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.
Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.
No matter how the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, states are making progress in developing strategies to provide more access to quality health care coverage.
If you’re a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that’s not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I’m a patient, I don’t want your imagination. I want what works.
Dann Huff is amazing and so patient.
If it’s a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.
Be patient – if something is supposed to happen, it’s going to happen. Whenever I’ve tried to force things, they didn’t go right.
I’ve never been a good patient. I’m not good with pain. It is not for me.
I’ve been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
On ‘Grey‘s,’ if you have a bad day as a doctor, you lose a patient. But what’s crazy about ‘Station 19’ is if you have a bad day as a firefighter, the patient dies, or you die, or your partner dies. It’s a whole other level of stakes.
The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.
I learned that I had to be patient and I had work hard even if the opportunities were not there. I just had to keep working to find them.
Obamacare is, ‘Patient, heal yourself.’
A designated patient ‘carries‘ the group‘s dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed.
Everyone works hard in this industry. However, it takes time to get good work. Some get it quite late. It is a frustrating and confusing journey, but I feel I have been patient.
I’m patient.
I’m really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
Brain surgery couldn’t happen without the patient’s own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that’s what makes neurosurgery different.
The biggest thing was just getting comfortable out there in front of all the people and just the whole major setting and how difficult major championships are, how patient… you have to be.
Success comes but with time. People want to achieve things very quickly; they are not patient.
I have been very successful in handling people who hurl abuse simply by being patient. Ignoring them is the best policy because afterwards, it’s the fans that criticise these so-called celebrities for their bad conduct.
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient’s room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.
It’s hard to be patient. It’s hard to sit back and actually wait and allow everything – just let it be.
In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
The Macorinos and me – there’s a big space between our generations. The people I was used to work with, we will do everything faster. And the Macorinos were more, like, calm. They were patient with music, and they were paying a lot of attention to the details.
So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.
I’m not a very patient person. I’ll take those quick risks to see if it’s going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That’s like self-mutilation to me.
I’m very patient with life.
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
If I stay patient in the offense, shots will come.
People are not patient anymore.
Now I’m with the American Top Team, I’m a better fighter, I’m a more patient fighter, I’ve improved in every aspect.
We’ve had Obama for eight years, who, to me, is a model of integrity, sensitivity, empathy. He’s wise, he’s patient, he maintains his composure, and I would have voted for him again.
At Tottenham, it took two years for me to try to break in there. I knew my opportunity would come – it was just about being patient and working hard on the training pitch – and it did.
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
You have to be patient in the Premier League.
We must never neglect the patient’s own use of his symptoms.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn’t got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Whether it’s a mom worrying about affording insulin for her children or a cancer patient fearing bankruptcy due the price of his life-saving medications, the number one issue Kansans talk to me about is the cost of health care and prescription drugs.
Don’t compare your career to anyone else‘s. It’s tough when you’re in a business that’s competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I’m having to learn to be patient and be where I am.
I have to say that to myself a lot – to be patient.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama’s first term.
I just feel like the way that I play, you know, I’m such a patient runner that a lot of people look at me as slow. But I’m not a slow guy.
I’m a patient guy.
You’ve got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.
If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn’t have a deal, I would have probably said, ‘Yeah.’ Now I’m so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me.
My life lesson is just to be patient and everything will fall in place. Most of what’s happened in my life is not to do with me but good people and the way things happened. So I feel it’s no use stressing over anything. Let things simply happen.
Get to the point where the songs sum it all up, and creatively, I’m just like, ‘This is it.’ I’ve also learned how to be patient and not really try to overproduce anymore. I used to add instruments, keep adding instruments, but nowadays – I know better now. I know how to let the track breathe.
I have always been a very patient person, I am a perfectionist but have a high level of patience and think that’s one of the things when I started my comeback that really helped… I wasn’t rushing anything as long as I knew I was on the right track.
As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won’t be afraid to say so.
Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare.
Increasing patient access to more affordable, FDA-approved generic and biosimilar medicines is a proven and tested solution to lowering prescription drug costs.
Keep your head up and be patient.
For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.
I’d love to have another film to go on to. I’m in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I’ll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.
Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let’s talk about the patient. The patient doesn’t need a war.
This is Test cricket. Being positive is not far away from being reckless. For all that the sport has become more fast-flowing and entertaining, you still need batsmen whose first instinct is to be patient.
I’m opposed to anybody getting between me and the patient.
My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They’ve gotten ahead of me somehow. But they’re very patient with me.
When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
You just have to know how to put in the work, know how to be patient, how to take advantage of every opportunity that you get.
I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I’m done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It’s hard to be patient and wait.
Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don’t expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.
The hardest thing to do is dig deep and be patient about the things you’re going to learn month to month and quarter to quarter.
Obviously, you want to score every game, but you just have to be patient.
Growing up in Africa teaches you to become patient.
I am patient zero.
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.
Every patient of mine who undergoes surgery has to see a psychologist first.
There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective – that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.
Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.
I do worry about the fact that science is becoming a slower process as society is becoming less patient.
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.
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
I always believed in my ability. I just had to work hard and be patient and, yeah, at times it didn’t look likely. You need a wee stroke of luck but every chance I’ve been given, I’ve taken.
I’m as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Patient zero feels great and is back to work.
