Treating Patients Quotes

• From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.

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  Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

  Wisdom   Art   Prayer  

  British Medical Journal 1: 671 (1953)

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• The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

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  William Osler

  Practice Of Medicine   Physicians   Disease  

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• Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible.

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  Hippocrates

  Science   Long   Giving  

  Hippocrates (1979). “Hippocrates”

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• Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something to the table through his or her vision that is not being provided by others - a special way of meeting needs, caring for others, treating patients, or marketing. An entrepreneur must have enormous faith. Risk-taking is critical to the development of an enterprise. You will not take risks unless you have the faith to do so.

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  Tony Robbins

  Caring   Creating   Entrepreneur  

  Interview with Dr. Joe Blaes, www.dentaleconomics.com. February 1, 2000.

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• I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

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  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Pain   Cancer   Thinking  

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• I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

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  John Malkovich

  Patient   Psychiatrist   Treating Patients  

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2003.

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• That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

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  Michael Baden

  Thinking   People   Benefits  

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