Practice Of Medicine Quotes

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

  William Osler

  Physicians, Disease, Medical

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• He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

  William Osler

  Book, Sea, Sailing

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• The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

  William Osler

  Art, Calling, Medical

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.13, Duke University Press

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• One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

  William Osler

  Education, Healing, Health

  In Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

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• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

  William Osler

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.

  James B. Herrick

  Doctors, Stories, May

  Memoirs of Eighty Years Ch. VIII

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

  William Osler

  Drug, Physicians, Disease

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• The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

  William Osler

  Jobs, Fall, Sacrifice

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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• Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

  James Bryce

  Science, America, World

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• It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

  William Osler

  Health, Important, Disease

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• Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

  William Osler

  Book, Disease, Rooms

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• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, War, Get Well Soon

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

  Paul Dudley White

  Important, Experience, Disease

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• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Doctors, Farewell To Arms, Medical

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.

  William Osler

  Wise, Art, Strong

  Sir William Osler (1963). “Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]”

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• People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Doctors, People

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• The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Safety, Pleasure, Terror

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• The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

  Vinod Khosla

  Lessons, Today, Healthcare

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• Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

  Marcia Angell

  Pain, Should Have, Practice

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• We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced to principles; art is knowledge reduced to practice. The knowing and doing, however, are distinct. ... Your knowledge, therefore, is useless unless you cultivate the art of healing. Unfortunately, the scientific man very often has the least amount of art, and he is totally unsuccessful in practice; and, on the other hand, there may be much art based on an infinitesimal amount of knowledge, and yet it is sufficient to make its cultivator eminent.

  Samuel Wilks

  Success, Art, Healing

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• The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

  Avicenna

  Science, Medical Knowledge, Medicine

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

  William Osler

  Home, Health, Men

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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