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Patient is a persistent act.
Every medicine is vain.
The ideal doctor is patient.
A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.
A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind!
But it seemed as if all psychiatric medicine was aimed only at the symptoms. Mute the paranoia. Calm the rage. Raise the endorphins. Underneath, the mysteries continued, unchanged. Underneath, somewhere in the chemistry of her brain, there was something that could not be reached.
I'm the most antimedication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
Pills for sickness;
books for ignorance.
Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
His health grew worse, probably exacerbated by the myriad of hovering doctors eager to give their famous patient all the latest treatments: strychnine injections, ammonia, ether, and electric pulses. On
I'm so sorry. I think I'm just tired."
The socially accepted excuse for being mental.
... growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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.
THE DOCTOR IS: INCARCERATED.
The best prescription is knowledge.
screwed blued and tattooed
I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'
There's no doctor like meat and drink ...
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's friends, uncertain as to the cause of one's queer behavior and strange sufferings, impute to one a mysteriousness often subtly convenient.
Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws
hygeine [sic] of the body, and hygeine of the spirit
is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
Troubled is a polite word for what I am.
abysmally beshitted.
Every patient clings to fantasies in which he sees himself in the active role so as to escape the pain of being defenseless and helpless. To achieve this he will accept guilt feelings, although they bind him to neurosis.
The nurses gave us meds to alleviate our tingling skins. And more meds to soothe our burning brains.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
No pills gonna cure my ill.
He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?
I don't mind the term functional medicine
I suppose it's better than dysfunctional medicine.
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
clinical picture
The ordinary can be like medicine.
He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
Medicating the symptom of any illness without exploring its root cause is just a classically hare-brained Western way to think that anyone could ever get truly better.
a book is both medic and medicine at once.
Mental illness is real illness
Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
Drugs made me feel more normal.
Don't think I get enough credit for the fact that I do all of this unmedicated.
Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
The physician heals, Nature makes well.
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people's invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on the clipboard at the end of my bed to fool the nurses; so I can indulge in rest cures all day, every day. That I'm even fooling myself.
Elixirs. Pills. Specialists. Are they meant to help us, or to keep us compliant?" -Daphne Leander
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one.
Happy wounds, which make us seek the beloved Physician.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of ill-health do you recognize its quiet, massive presence, its brooding permanence.
A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.
Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
Sick unto death, I think they call it
Some would say eccentric. I would say stoned out of his fuckin mind, nothing personal.
Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why!
A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.
The most important medicine is tender love and care.
A prayer/meditation a day, keeps the Doctor away.
I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)
When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.
An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care,
Yet never let the noble mind despair.
drunk right now, Amfortas suspected, or high on amphetamine,
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
As a physician, I try to heal the mind before healing the body. That's why most of my patients get better even before they start any medication.
People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.
God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health caredebate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.
A grateful heart is good medicine.
Food is better medicine than drugs
Life is managed; it is not cured.
Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending.
A WISE PHYSICIAN SAID:
"THE BEST MEDECINE FOR HUMAN IS LOVE"
someone asked:
What if it doesn't work?
He Smiled and Answered..
"INCREASE THE DOSE"
(c)
Healing Magic I instill,
Far Greater this,
Than any pill!
Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.
The author would like to acknowledge: That disease and its treatment are
Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.
Medicine then must have been such an exciting, desperate, violent business; nowadays it is all pills and bureaucracy.
How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted. How clearly I still see it, and yet show no sign of improvement.
When my father was vigorous and lucid, (my mother) regarded medicine as her wily ally in a lifelong campaign to keep old age, sickness, and death at bay. Now ally and foe exchanged masks. Medicine looked more like the enemy, and death the friend. (p. 184)
He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
But, Doctor, I'm not ill. Good God! I've told you everything".
Again his fixed his eyes on mine and stopped me, his voice full of resolve.
"You are ill. It is the fate we all share since the birth of psychoanalysis".
Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine.
Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.