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“First do no harm. -Hippocrates
Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.”
― The Common Sense Guide to Dementia For Clinicians and Caregivers
Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.”
― The Common Sense Guide to Dementia For Clinicians and Caregivers
“The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.”
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
“What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.”
― Getting Well
― Getting Well
“Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's soul, then the doctor's care is given without caring, and part of the sacred mission of healing is missing.”
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“Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.”
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