Words of Wisdom on the Art of Doctoring
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"Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you."
"Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world."
- Linus Pauling
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"Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food."
-Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine.
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"It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within."
-Albert Schweitzer, M.D.
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"Doctors give drugs of which they know little,into bodies, of which they know less,
for diseases of which they know nothing at all."
Voltaire
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"Claude Bernard was right: 'The germ is nothing; the terrain is everything.'"
-Louis Pasteur on his deathbed
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"Never, no never does Nature say one thing and wisdom another."
-Johann Christolph Frederick von Schuller
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"The Constitution of this republic should make special provision for medical freedom, as well as religious freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and to deny equal privileges to others, will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic."
-Dr. Benjamin Rush, surgeon general of the Continental army, when they sat down to sign the Declaration Of Independence.
"The carpenter desires timber, the physician disease."
-Rig Veda IX. 7.9
"I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still get your money."
-Moliere: "A Physician in Spite of Himself," 1664
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"If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families. We need total health more than medically approved health"
-Andrew Saul, in the opening chapter of his manual Doctor Yourself.
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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is proof against all argument,
and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance.
That principle is condemnation without investigation."
-Herbert Spencer
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"Joy, temperance and repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose."
-Longfellow
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"When all the land is destroyed,
and all the fish are dead,
then will the white man learn
that he can't eat money."
-Native American saying
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"The work of the doctor will, in the future, be ever more that of an educator, and ever less that of a man who treats ailments."
-Lord Horder
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"Be careful in reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
-Mark Twain
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"By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."
-R. Buckminster Fuller
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"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse."
-David Hume
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"What ails the physician that he dies of the disease
That he would have cured in time gone by?
There died alike he who administered the drug and he who took it,
And he who imported and sold the drug, and he who bought it."
-Verses upon the death in Baghdad of the physician Yuhanna ibn Masawayh in the year 857.
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"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
-Emerson
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"The best doctor gives the least medicines."
-Benjamin Franklin
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"All drug doctors are quacks."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care."
-Andrew Saul
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"You can't go back and make a new start,
but you can start now and make a new ending."
-Anonymous
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"You cannot cheat nature, however much you may cheat your fellow man."
- Galileo
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that
ever has."
- Margaret Mead
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"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."
- Cicero
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"When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us,
we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies."
-U.S. Representative Ron Paul, MD
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"The first wealth is health."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
-Mohandas Gandhi
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"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."
-Buddha
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"The wish for healing has always been half of health."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one."
-Dr. William Menninger
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"A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us."
-Pema Chodron
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"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease."
-Ashley Montagu
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"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."
-Norman Cousins
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"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease."
-Buddha
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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
-Sir Francis Bacon
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"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."
Benjamin Jowett
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"When it comes to your health, I recommend frequent doses of that rare commodity among Americans - common sense."
-Dr. Vincent Askey
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"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
-Voltaire
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"The medicine increases the disease."
-Virgil
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"The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals - if not, it may even be counterproductive."
-Dr. Joel J. Nobel
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"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
-Thomas Szasz
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"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it."
-George W. Bush
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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine, for all its breathtaking successes, is, like the celebrated Tower of Pisa, slightly off balance. It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills."
-Prince Charles
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"Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments."
-Jay Leno
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"The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing."
-Dizzy Dean
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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"The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too."
-Anton Chekhov
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"First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me."
-Steve Martin
"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays."
Henny Youngman
"I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for."
-James H. Boren
"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more."
-Walter Matthau
"One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience".
-Alice James
"I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation.
I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against,
if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that in itself creates new potential."
--Vandana Shiva, India Activist and Author
`It is from nature that the disease arises and from nature comes the cure, not from the physician.'
- Paracelsus
`The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.'
- Hippocrates
`I long ago came to the conclusion that it was horribly evil to experiment on other living beings and then attempt to justify the practice by calling it medical research.'
- Sir John Gielgud
`Roughly speaking there is about 10 times more chance of being admitted to a mental hospital in any First World country than of being admitted to a university.'
- R D Laing
`We don't hold much with talking to patients in this ward.'
- A nurse
`And she had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.'
- The Bible
`The treatment with poison medicines, comes from the West.'
- Huang Ti, Chinese Emperor 2697 - 2579BC
`Study sickness while you are well.'
- Thomas Fuller
`I don't want to achieve immortality through my work - I want to achieve it through not dying.'
- Woody Allen
`The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.'
- Stephen Vizinczey
`In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific `truth', the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.'
- Marcel Proust, writer
`If I contracted cancer, I would never go to a conventional cancer treatment centre. Cancer victims who live far from such centres have a chance.'
- French cancer specialist
mandato da Robin Good il Saturday September 18 2004
aggiornato il Monday September 11 2006URL of this article:
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