Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.
One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them.
I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.
Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.
Be patient. Life can seem pretty gray while those beautiful wings of yours are being formed. All in due time, dear one. All in due time.
Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.
By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.
Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.
My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.
I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends when I go around a corner; at a restaurant I see a forlorn man at the table next to me, and I love him, and the conversation pulls me back, and it's ended. A patient comes in, and she is sick, and I love her, and then she dies, and I never see her again. This is what I live for. Don't think that it's sad.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Perfect love is perfectly patient.
Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
You cannot call yourself patient until you are willing and able to bear things that you have no wish to bear.
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.