The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
Being a physician, you can either treat the symptoms or cure the disease. This Congress has been treating the symptoms. It's time we cure the disease and take care of the problems that are underlying our poor economy.
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.