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“Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.”
― Herbert M. Shelton

“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. ”
― Hippocrates

“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it”
― Moses Maimonides

“We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.”
― Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science