#medicine

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. ↗

— Alfred Kazin

#education #left #like #liver #look

The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, and faulty judgments, which are the causes of so much hardship and handicap. To heal the body one turns to the practitioner of the art of healing the body, but to heal the soul there is no doctor to turn to, and each of us is left to become that doctor unto himself. Yet, this need not stop us from exhorting others to imitate us in the godly art, in the forlorn hope that they might transform themselves into better citizens for Athens and better companions for us. ↗

— Neel Burton

#philosophy #art

Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds. ↗

— Herbert M. Shelton

#healing #health #health-care #medicine #art

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#disease #doctors #life #medical-training #medicine

A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#doctors #health #death

If your leg is in a cast, it's really dumb to sit in front of your computer doing unnecessary stuff with it hanging down. Your leg will swell and heal slower, if at all. When you go to your doctor, he/she will give you one of those "you're really dumb and self destructive" looks. Also, "Why didn't you follow my orders and rest?" Your doctor will be right, and so will mine at my next office visit. Elevate, folk! Elevate your mind, your soul, and your leg, in the order needed! ↗

— Sandy Nathan

#humor #inspiration #medicine #new-age #philosophy

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food ↗

— Hippocrates

#health #medicine #food

My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do." Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in over my head, knowing when to call for the assistance of a surgeon of my father's caliber--that kind of talent, that kind of "brilliance," goes unheralded. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#healing #medicine #surgeon #respect

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. ↗

— Hippocrates

#medicine #medicine

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it ↗

— Maimonides

#disease #humanism #medicine #nurse #medicine