59 Quotes About Patients

Let’s not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts.

Once my hair is gone, once I can no longer taste my food, once I have passed out while shopping for a bread knife in IKEA, once the ex-lovers have all visited to make one last attempt to get me in bed, once the generous humiliations of crowdsourced charity have assured me months of organic produce, I have become a patient. The old ways are through. Any horizon is made of medicine.

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.

EDS is a scary and challenging diagnosis, but the consequences of not knowing are far greater than that of a correct diagnosis. EDS symptoms can range from the very mild to the extremely severe. One thing is certain, though: If I had received a diagnosis back when my symptoms were mild, I would be living a very different life now. Every single day, in my struggle to actualize the person I still can be, I cannot help but mourn the person I could have been.

It is important that nurses and doctors know that failing to use legally required health and safety protocols with COVID-19 patients may invalidate their disability and life insurance policies.

Be careful of using the word normal around cancer patients, whether they call themselves a survivor or not, there is no 'back to normal'.

Doctors rarely fix their patients health issues. Instead, the patient gets put on a toxic cocktail of prescription drugs for the rest of their life that typically makes them sicker. In engineering, if you could not fix broken systems, you would likely be fired.

Patient and persistent attitude will move mountains.