I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

- Abraham Verghese

If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.

- Andrea Seigel

When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for generations. Patient autonomy is core to this oath.

- Ami Bera

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

- Ami Bera

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

- Ami Bera

As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.

- Aimee Bender

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.

- Amy Hoggart

I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.

- Alison Brie

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

- Alex Gibney

The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.

- Adam Michnik

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

- Alfred Adler

I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.

- Ayelet Waldman

People are not patient anymore.

- Antonio Banderas

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!

- Anne Hathaway

I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.

- Angie Harmon

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.

- Alan Thicke

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

- Abbas Kiarostami

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

- A. J. McLean

Keep your head up and be patient.

- A. J. McLean

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.

- Alfred Adler