Top 1200 Cancer Patients Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Too few nurses puts patients at risk. It also risks the mental and physical health of the nurses we do have, as the fewer staff there are on a ward, the harder it gets to pick up the pieces.
There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.
I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.
Many of the patients in military and veterans hospitals require long stays, which can place a large financial hardship on families who don't live near the hospital, which is very common.
Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.
My mom was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer when she was 47.
These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.
My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'
I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.
Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.
Modern medicine uses imaging 'windows' such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners to bring into view otherwise unseen vital information that skilled physicians can use for the benefit of their patients.
Yes, American medicine has its pathologies, but Canada's does, too, and we need to wake up. Government controls everything here, and governments only pay attention to polls at election time, not to angry patients.
Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority of patients who need dialysis die without it.
My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved.
Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.
I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.
With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.
I'm a Cancer; I'm music-passionate. I like long walks on the beach.
With cancer, there's always that doubt-that unknown. The only thing you can do is be positive.
We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.
A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.
I continue to do my job as a brain surgeon, as a researcher, and I try to make it better and better every day, not only for my patients but for their families, for my family and for the future generations of our country.
We once thought of cancer as an incurable disease; then we started treating it.
The other option we have are medication treatments. So you'll have the treatments such as Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata, and we'll also have Rozerem and for some patients we use Benzodiazopine/Clonazepam. Things like that to help with anxiety.
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.
Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.
Price gouging for drugs that treat cancer in children is simply unconscionable.
I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
When you think about it, caring for patients is 99 percent information and 1 percent intervention, so it's clear that with or without genomics, the paradigm is shifting. Bioinformatics brings a cutting edge capacity to healthcare.
Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer.
We should at least make sure that patients are given the opportunity to opt out of spending their final days in a hospital, hooked up to tubes and running up enormous bills.
I'm not going to criticise Nick Boles because he fought off cancer.
Not having hair makes me feel like a cancer patient.
I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.
Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it.
You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.
When I was young, my dad had skin cancer, which was awful.
Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.
I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
Cancer is a cosmic slap in the face. You either get discouraged or ennobled by it.
Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.
Seeing what was needed in the hospital firsthand - someone needs to come in and just be with patients, without trying to take their blood or change the bedpan, and to give them human-to-human touch.
Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
The more I removed vegetables that have lots of seeds, such as cucumbers and squash, the better my patients felt, the more weight they lost, and the more their cholesterol levels improved.
I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, 'I've beaten it. You can, too.'
Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.
My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories.
I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.
If, over time, patients don't go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: 'These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don't need.'
People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.
