The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.
The patient decides when it's best to go.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
People want to feel hopeful.
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