Quotes by Physicians - Page 11

When we don’t fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears.
Debasish Mridha
The Top 4 Causes of Medical Problems: stress,negative mindset,poor diet, sedentary lifestyle.
Charles F. Glassman
Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.
David Z. Hirsch
Stress kills when you fuel the initial reaction with negative thoughts, aggressive behavior, belief and trust in the uncomfortable physical and emotional symptoms it causes. Don’t fuel it, and watch how fast stress disappears.
Charles F. Glassman
I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.
Diane Meier
Your lover should be your best friend.... Love can be a choice as much as an accident.
Carol Cassella
He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?''No, I have not.''Well, well, such is fame!
Arthur Conan Doyle
You must dream big and dream often. Take risks and see what happens.
Debasish Mridha
Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters.
Debasish Mridha
Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.
Debasish Mridha
Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.
Debasish Mridha
Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese
Spencer Johnson
when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there
Spencer Johnson
Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
..I don't count Jennifer among my mistakes. She had a severe infection and precious little reserve. Nevertheless, I think of her often. Those minutes of terror and confusion I felt standing powerless in her room served as a visceral reminder throughout my training... that the big picture isn't enough in medicine...
Lisa Sanders
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.
Jerome Groopman
[American ambulance crews] salvaged people we'd never see in Missing, because no one would have tied to bring them to a hospital. Judging someone to be beyond help never crossed the minds of police, firemen, or doctors here.
Abraham Verghese
There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.
Samuel Shem
All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.
Paracelsus
Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?
Norman Bethune
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler
There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.
Robert Martensen
Our health care approaches squander billions on extravagant treatment regimes that end up accomplishing little, as a society we refuse to adopt the small, even tiny adjustments that could easily reduce the clawing uncertainties that now degrade millions.
Robert Martensen
Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.
Jacob M. Appel
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Hippocrates
It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time
Samuel Shem
The nineteenth century is called the century of hygiene, and the twentieth is the century of medicine. The twenty-first century may be the century of behavioral change. Changing everyday, long-term behaviors--how we exercise, what we eat--is the key to adding years and quality to our lives.
Michael Stein
Alcenith Crawford (a divorced ophthalmologist): "We women doctors have un-happy marriages because in our minds we are the superstars of our families. Having survived the hardship of medical school we expect to reap our rewards at home. We had to assert ourselves against all odds and when we finally graduate there are few shrinking violets amongst us. It takes a special man to be able to cope. Men like to feel important and be the undisputed head of the family. A man does not enjoy waiting for his wife while she performs life-saving operations. He expects her and their children to revolve around his needs, not the other way. But we have become accustomed to giving orders in hospitals and having them obeyed. Once home, it's difficult to adjust. Moreover, we often earn more than our husbands. It takes a generous and exceptional man to forgive all that.
Adeline Yen Mah
To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.
William Osler
The case which I reported on September 26, 1901, was really the last which occurred in Havana. Of course we did not know it at the time, but this case marked the first conquest of yellow fever in an endemic center; the first application of the mosquito theory to practical sanitary work in any disease.
William Crawford Gorgas
Medicine’s a funny business. After all, dispensing chemicals is considered mainstream and diet and nutrition is considered alternative.
Charles F. Glassman
Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.And so I became a surgeon.
Abraham Verghese
I was temperamentally better suited to a cognitive discipline, to an introspective field—internal medicine, or perhaps psychiatry. The sight of the operating theater made me sweat. The idea of holding a scalpel caused coils to form in my belly. (It still does.) Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.And so I became a surgeon.
Abraham Verghese
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes emotions as the "continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable humming." This basso continuo thrums along while doctors make a steady stream of conscious medical decisions.
Danielle Ofri
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
Hippocrates
Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.
Hippocrates
Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.
Abraham Verghese
We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.
William Osler
Here in Bosnia I had already seen several cases of rheumatic fever and a case we thought was miliary tuberculosis, diseases now rare in America. It was sobering to think that the mundane process of vaccinating these children might ultimately save more lives than any UN-brokered peace treaty.
Pamela Grim
Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.
Samuel Shem
To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.
Samuel Shem
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know where the problems lay.
Danielle Ofri
The story was an 82 year old guy with a broken neck. He had apparently fallen in his bathroom that morning, cracking his 1st and 2nd vertebrae. I had a vague memory from medical school that this wasn't a good thing--the expression "hangman's fracture" kept bobbing up from the well of facts I do not use --but I had a much more distinct impression that this was not a case for cardiology."And Ortho isn't taking him because?" I said wearily."Because he's got internal organs, dude."I sighed. "So why me?""Because they got an EKG."The MAO was clearly enjoying himself. I remembered he had recently been accepted to a cardiology fellowship. I braced myself for the punch line."And?""And there's ectopy on it. Ectopy." He then made a noise intended to suggest a ghost haunting something.
Terrence Holt
The patient is the one with the disease
Samuel Shem
At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse
Samuel Shem
Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.
Edward E. Rosenbaum
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
Hippocrates
A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra
Samuel Shem
Every day," I said, "every day I go to work and I see my granddad. I see the drunks and the addicts, the people who have fallen right off the edge of the earth. I see people who have made every bad move anyone could make, made every major mistake there was to be made, and by the time I see them, they are paying for it, sometimes with their lives. That's why they came to the ER. "When you work in emergency medicine, you are seeing patients who are the least common denominator as far as human beings go; people who are heartbreakingly stupid and ditty and drunk and high and obnoxious--unbelievably obnoxious. These people have all flowed out of the darkest side of life. And when you are finished with them, that's mostly where they'll return. So each of you who is thinking you want to go into emergency medicine will have to ask yourself, 'Do I really want to do this?'" I tapped my chest. "I know the answer for myself--every day I work I'm taking care of someone who is just like my grandfather, someone just like my mother. But everyone in this room needs to ask himself or herself, 'Do I want to spend the rest of my life with addicts and idiots and drunks and psychotics? Is this what will make me happy?'" I peered at all of them over the top of the microphone. "Very few sane people answer yes.
Pamela Grim
The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates
...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid.
Michelle Au
I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears -- the fluids in which one dissolved all traces of self. In working myself ragged, I felt integrated...
Abraham Verghese
The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
Jerome Groopman
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
Hippocrates
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
Hippocrates
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
Maimonides
Feed the truth. Starve the lie.
Robin L. Smith
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
Arthur Conan Doyle