“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (Smile, eyes open.) I am, you must admit Joseph, a very patient man.

[...] Unfortunately, a system of medicine that largely deals with symptoms only encourages a patient to project such beliefs on new organs, for instance, after already sacrificing others in operations.

[...] They can also have insurance and employment problems (as can many other cancer patients).

[...] Involved here are recent diagnostic procedures: the study of the “patient’s” family history, the study of the “density” and structure of her breast tissues as determined by mammogram patterns, and the detection of possibly premalignant cellular changes. [...]

[...] He should expect to make his financial contribution through his classes, and to throw his energy into them, and be patient as he would if he had an outside job.

Crisis Points, the Mechanics of Self-Healing, and the Psyche.
False Sympathy
Often the patient doesn’t want to get well, and the doctor knows it.

[...] Each patient is supposed to have one, according to NY State inspectors who are at the hospital this week. [...]

[...] I got from him the name of the supervisior of claims at Blue Cross, as well as a person, Mary Krebs, head of Utilization Review, which determines what level of care a patient is at, at the hospital.

[...] The painting is of a patient in the hospital where my father stays. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) An animal in Ruburt’s physical condition would simply be resting, perceiving body alterations and odd states with patient acquiescence, doing what it could physically and forgetting about the rest, trustful in the body’s capacities to heal itself. [...]

[...] He is used to speaking quietly with patients at their level of understanding.

[...] I wasn’t sure myself as to who or what Seth was, and the thought crossed my mind more than once that the doctor’s attitude was simply a device to gain my confidence—the psychologist’s pretense that he believed in the existence of his patient’s delusion as unquestioningly as the patient did.

[...] It contained a patient’s record sheet, a page from a pad that Nora had picked out of a wastebasket in another office. At the bottom corner were four numbers in a row, with other numbers on the top by the patient’s name, Margaret. [...]

We knew that Nora was a secretary in a hospital office that had to do with the purchase of drugs and supplies, but that she had nothing to do with patients, their records, or medical procedures. [...]

[...] When it saves lives, it does so because of the intuitive healing understanding of the physician, or because the patient is so impressed by the great efforts taken in his behalf, and therefore is convinced secondhandedly of his own worth.

[...] Some people think of themselves as patients, as others, for example, might think of themselves as students. [...]

I told him to be patient here. [...]

[...] You met, for example, patients. [...]

(9:52.) It is time not only to renew the sessions, to begin your new policies, but also to be patient with your own progress once you are certain that you are trying your best. [...]

[...] (In Mass Events, for instance.) If people were not sick they would not need doctors (quietly amused), and since many people are unaware consciously of their own motives, then the doctors and the patients are often in league with each other, helping to maintain the dis-ease. [...]

[...] He thinks he cannot change the world—but he can help the individual patient. [...]

[...] He described an angiogram to us, an out-patient sterile procedure in which a dye is fed into the circulatory system then traced via X-ray to see where blockages might have occurred in the finger. [...]

[...] Dependency feelings that are overwhelming could be given freer and safer expression, if the patient had the suggestion given to him that he would dream of himself in dependent positions. [...]