It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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.
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.
I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.