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 Treat the patient, not the x-ray. ~ James M. Hunter. Until a physician has killed one or two he is not a physician. ~ Kashmiri Proverb. When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. ~ Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard. When you treat a disease, first treat the mind. ~ Chen Jen. Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. ~ Martin H. Fischer. Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell. ~ Lewis G. Janes In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. ~ Martin H. Fischer. When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is - if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess. ~ Nicholas de Belleville. It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. ~ A. Benson Cannon. Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. ~ John Brown. Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. ~ Jean Martin Charcot, translated from French To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~ Henry Ward Beecher. To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. ~ Henri Amiel.
