30 Quotes About Doctors-and-patients

A life saved is a family saved.

Your warmth has more healing power upon the patient than all the medical tools in the world.

As a doctor, you may often need to entertain the patient's belief, without actually accepting it to be factually true, if you see a potential positive impact of that belief in the person's recovery.

Be aware of the whole domain of sickness - be aware of its implications in human life - be aware of its farthest reach in the life of the patient as well as the lives of the next of kin - be aware of its deepest roots, for that very awareness is the very foundation of true diagnosis, which automatically brings along the awareness of wellness.

Understanding sickness in its whole form, reach and impact, automatically brings along the insight into wellness, just like understanding chaos with all its nuances brings along the true practical perception of harmony and the means to achieve it.

A doctor should be a clown at heart, a scientist at brain and a mother at conscience.

Being a doctor is unlike any other profession on earth. Being a doctor is the closest real thing that we can have on earth to being a God with the power to sustain life. Gods are imaginary, but Doctors are not. They are actual living beings on earth, with the actual expertise of giving life to others.

Being a doctor, is not simply about having an understanding of anatomy and sickness, rather it is about having an understanding of true wellness and more importantly, it is about understanding the intensity of the concern of the patient’s next of kin.

Anxious and angry relatives are a burden all doctors must bear, but having been one myself was an important part of my medical education.