Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.
We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.