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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.
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.
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.
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.
Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation.
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.
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.
Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.
I think energy medicine is a field that is probably for me the most authentic level of medicine that there is, because it takes into account what I would call 'square one of creation'. Which is where energy meets the process of incarnating. So I think it is very much going to become the dominant practice of medicine in this next millennium. We have no other place to go but there.
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.
