You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of treating individuals with care and compassion rather than just focusing on their medical conditions.
Robin Williams highlights the distinction between treating a disease—which often results in uncertain outcomes—and treating a person, which involves empathy and human connection. By focusing on the individual rather than merely their ailment, healthcare professionals can foster a healing environment that transcends clinical results, ultimately leading to a more positive experience for both patient and caregiver.
In practice
Using this quote in a medical conference to underline the importance of patient-centered care.
It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.' Because you have that initial warm feeling going, 'Oh, I remember this'. And your body does, too. And your body goes, 'Yeah, so do I'. Then the demon voice comes, 'Yeah, so do I. You know what would be great? You know we bought a little bottle before? A full bottle would be wonderful'.
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is outside of awareness doesn't mean it's outside of control.
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.
The non-doing of any evil,_x000D_ the performance of what's skillful,_x000D_ the cleansing of one's own mind:_x000D_ this is the teaching of the Awakened.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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