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An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.
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to take steps to avoid
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Medicine is intention. Those who are proficient at using intention are good doctors.
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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
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What God predetermine proves true!
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Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment ...
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There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
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The three most dangerous words in medicine: in my experience.
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Declare the past,
diagnose the present,
foretell the future.
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To be premature is to be perfect
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future - must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Every medicine is vain.
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Elixirs. Pills. Specialists. Are they meant to help us, or to keep us compliant?" -Daphne Leander
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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
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The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
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Liberating a prejudiced mind from its preconceived notions and scripting a life of purposefulness requires constant postulation, observation, evaluation, and synthesizing.
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.
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Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.
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Doctor's recommendation to patient. Underneath that was scrawled: Don't do cocaine.
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Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy gift; Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat, I'll tell thee thou dost evil.
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Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine was, in this understanding, engaged in social control.
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We are used to thinking of doctoring as a solitary, intellectual task. But making medicine go right is less often like making a difficult diagnosis than like making sure everyone washes their hands.
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Patient isn't exactly a word in my vocabulary
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we may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
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A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
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If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.
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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions ...
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Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning - that meaning being invariably a moralistic one.
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Sedatives and slim pills: French doctors are so obliging. That's why French women don't get fat.
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Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
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There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
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For some persons the remedy should be merely prescribed; in the case of others, it should be forced down their throats.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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One person's medicine may be another person's poison.
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The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government. Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated ...
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That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).
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Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.
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We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.
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I gave no prescriptions,
And those who have taken my moods for prophecies
Mistake the matter.
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In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.
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At all events, it is certain that if any medicinal man had come to Middlemarch with the reputation of having very definite religious views, of being given to prayer, and of otherwise showing an active piety, there would have been a general presumption against his medical skill.
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It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
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I'm so mean I make medicine sick!
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In all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose ... Every successive year would see fewer of the unfit born, and finally none. But, it may be urged, this is legalized infanticide. Assuredly it is; and it is urgently needed.
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THE DOCTOR IS: INCARCERATED.
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It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to protect them from harm.
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A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.
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Action should be taken before a thing has made its appearance; order should be secured before disorder has begun.
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By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
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Sterile." "Or they were very careful, and
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
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Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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Remedy
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System.
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Matthias handed over the bag. "What are you looking for?"
"A sedative," said the medik.
"Is that safe for a pregnant woman?"
"For me.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Gentle to others, to himself severe.
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I like not charity unreasonably large for the exempting of ourselves from the labour of duty: I would not choose such a charitable physician that would make his patients believe that they are in no danger, to save himself the labour of attending them for the cure.
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We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.
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A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.
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Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.
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The physicians belief in the treatment and the patients faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a powerful remedy
that is almost guaranteed to produce an
improvement and sometimes a cure
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It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.
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Old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen was, Isabel had always felt, a moral tragedy for medicine.
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Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do ... implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.
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A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.
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THE RESIDENT PATIENT
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You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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Initiate. Complete.
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A little impatience (carefully applied and infused with
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You know that proper doctoring means hard choices." She gave me an unflinching look. "We hain't like other folk. You burn a man with an iron to stop his bleeding. You save the mother and lose the babe. It's hard, and nobody ever thanks you for it. But we're the ones that have to choose." She
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Fasting is the first principle of medicine.
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[N]o one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.
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Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, and Timely
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
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recognizing how even poison is a form of medicine when used the right way.
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A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
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neonatologist." Immediately
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Temptation requires definite, decisive action.
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There are no prescriptions for life.
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An overdose of love is logically consistent curative.