More quotes by Victoria Sweet
Patients are not consumers, but sick, scared, vulnerable. Doctors and nurses are practicing a calling, a vocation, a craft and an art.
We can allow for Slow Medicine beds in our hospitals so that doctors have enough time to find out what is really wrong with a patient, and patients have enough time to heal.
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017)
What do I mean by "soul"?...Presence. Attention. Judgment. Kindness. Above all, responsibility.
Every time a new drug comes out, I read what the side effects are and how many people really get better, and I add in the side effects and the adverse reactions. When you do that, and subtract out the placebo effect, not many new medications make a difference.
...when you're on your pilgrimage, you don't even need to know where you're going. You just have to know when you're off your path.
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