Medical Practice Quotes

“Your warmth has more healing power upon the patient than all the medical tools in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“The world doesn't need more smart doctors, it needs more warm and wise doctors. Be the wisdom yourself - be the warmth yourself, and be the doctor that the doctors have forgotten to be, for it is time to save medicine, to save humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Doctor's Sonnet

A doctor is one who's gentle as a bird,
A doctor is one who's brave as a soldier,
A doctor is one who's amusing as a clown,
A doctor is one who's caring as a mother.
Treating the sick is not a comfort job,
It is a difficult life without leisure and lure.
If all you want are wealth and tranquility,
Trade in your medical license for a liquor store.
The world is filled with doctors most cold,
Many don't practice medicine but self-centricity.
Instruments and intellect don't make a doctor,
Without warmth all pills lose their efficacy.
Healthcare means aid first talk rules later.
Better a kindhearted fool than a heartless monster.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Lydgate certainly had good reason to reflect on the service his practice did him in counteracting his personal cares. He had no longer free energy enough for spontaneous research and speculative thinking, but by the bedside of patients, the direct external calls on his judgment and sympathies brought the added impulse needed to draw him out of himself. It was not simply that beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectably and unhappy men to live calmly — it was a perpetual claim on the immediate fresh application of thought, and on the consideration of another’s need and trial.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch a Study in Provincial Life, Vol. 2

“Yours are the scrubs of hope and stetho of sanctity.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Patience is the golden virtue in doctorhood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“For a patient to be fully treated by a doctor, the patient must be willing to put all psychological guards down and be vulnerable. And this can only happen if the patient can trust the doctor, and this trust can only be induced through the release of oxytocin, which can only be triggered in the patient's brain by the will of a doctor with a genuine act of kindness on the doctor's part.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Most so-called doctors may boastfully proclaim to you that you must be concerned about making a lot of money in the practice of medicine, but keep in mind, that's precisely what practice of medicine is not about. So, reply to them with utmost realization of the purpose of medicine, "if you want to make a lot of money, then you should better go into business, not in medicine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Treatment of sickness is a part of Medicine, but it's not the whole of Medicine.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Celebrities Ain't Health Experts (The Sonnet)

Celebrities and influencers are not health experts,
Stop taking medical advice from halfwits of wellness.
Stop being a two-bit doctor from ten minutes of googling,
For Google is not a substitute for doctors and nurses.
Compared to that of a trained and experienced doctor,
Even as a neurobiologist my diagnosis skills are insignifant.
Then why can't you accept that when it comes to medicine,
Your opinion is worth no more than a counterfeit coin.
One goes through years of training and many sleepless nights,
Then they earn the right to wear the white coat of service.
And yet upon spending an hour surfing on the internet,
You put on the personality of a grey-haired neurologist!
Lack of expertise is by no means the same as lack of dignity.
But denial of expertise indicates a definite lack of sanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Stop being a two-bit doctor from ten minutes of googling.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“If you can't feel the difference between a scalpel and a cleaver, there is no difference between a doctor and a butcher.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Healthcare means aid first, rules later.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“We don't recognize borders,
We don't recognize states.
Patientcare is our national anthem,
Reward of medicine is smiling patients.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Patientcare is our national anthem.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets