{"quotes":[{"text":"We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of smell to do the exact same thing. It is known that the scent of fresh rosemary increases memory, but this cure for memory loss is not divulged by doctors to help the elderly. I also know that the most effective use of the blue lotus flower is not from its dilution with wine or tea – but from its scent. To really maximize the positive effects of the blue lily (or the pink lotus), it must be sniffed within minutes of plucking. This is why it is frequently shown being sniffed by my ancient ancestors on the walls of temples and on papyrus. Even countries across the Orient share the same imagery. The sacred lotus not only creates a relaxing sensation of euphoria, and increases vibrations of the heart, but also triggers genetic memory - and good memory with an awakened heart ushers wisdom.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ailment","ancient-egyptians","ancient-medicine","awakened","awakened-heart","blue-lily","cure","cures","doctors","east","egypt","egyptians","elderly","enlightenment","euphoria","flower","flowers","fluids","genetic-memory","genetics","health","healthcare","heart","illness","illnesses","imagery-sacred","increaes-memory","lily","lotus","lotus-flower","medicine","memory","memory-loss","metaphysics","orient","papyrus","philosophy","physicians","pills","power","power-of-scent","power-of-smell","remedy","rosemary","sacred-lotus","scent","scripture","smell","smelling","tea","temples","tombs","treatment","vibrations","wine","wisdom"],"id":3575,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Many people over forty have at least one health condition that affects their ability to work a forty hour work week effectively. Human Resources (HR), doctors and governments have known this fact for decades.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["ability","affects","condition","decades","doctors","effectively","forty","governments","health","hr","human","known","least","many","over","people","resources","week","work"],"id":6201,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, 'The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do.' Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in over my head, knowing when to call for the assistance of a surgeon of my father's caliber--that kind of talent, that kind of 'brilliance,' goes unheralded.","author":"Abraham Verghese","tags":["doctors","healing","medicine","surgeon"],"id":6251,"author_id":"Abraham+Verghese"},{"text":"The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.","author":"Marcel Proust","tags":["doctors","medicine","optimism","pessimism"],"id":20495,"author_id":"Marcel+Proust"},{"text":"I told her that I didn't want to take any drugs. That I had come here not to take drugs. 'Listen,' she said, not unkindly, 'up until now I would say that ninety-nine percent of all the narcotics you have taken in your life you bought from guys you didn't know, in bathrooms or on street corners, something like that. Correct?'I nodded.'Well these guys could have been selling you salt or strychnine. They didn't care. They wanted your money. I don't care about your money, and, unlike your previous suppliers, I went to college to study just the right drugs to give to people like you in order to help you get better. So, bearing all that in mind ... Take the fucking drugs!'I took the drugs.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["doctors","drugs","rehab"],"id":20599,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"Dr Power stood up. “Because your staff are not components that can be fitted in, or replaced when they are unpredictable, or when they are simply being human. Because our patients are not playing a game called ‘business’ with profit and loss and winners and losers. Because patients have no choice, but to be patients and it’s our privilege to be in a temporary position where we can help them. And, inevitably, when we ourselves fall ill; when we grow old, then we can only hope that we will receive the help we ourselves need in turn. Because that’s the reality of life. And not some self-aggrandising game'. - Dr Power, speaking in The Good Shepherd.","author":"Hugh Greene","tags":["doctors","health","hospitals","nhs"],"id":23375,"author_id":"Hugh+Greene"},{"text":"I always feel that young doctors are only too anxious too experiment. After they've whipped out all our teeth, and administered quantities of very peculiar glands, and removed bits of our insides, they then confess that nothing can be done for us. I really prefer the old-fashioned remedy of big black bottles of medicine. After all, one can always pour those down the sink.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["doctors","medicine"],"id":30887,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"It's like the commercial, 'Once you pop you can't stop.'  Once you pop a pill, you can't stop.  They have you hooked and they know it.  Like a drug dealer, they are so happy they have won another loyal customer.  Not loyal because you want to be, but loyal because your body is now completely dependent on them and their legal prescription 'drugs.'.","author":"Lisa Bedrick","tags":["doctors","pills","prescriptions","psychology"],"id":37243,"author_id":"Lisa+Bedrick"},{"text":"Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.","author":"Denis Parsons Burkitt","tags":["doctors","humor","medicine","plumbers","prevention","science","teach"],"id":38821,"author_id":"Denis+Parsons+Burkitt"},{"text":"THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE Before you examine the body of a patient,Be patient to learn his story.For once you learn his story,You will also come to knowHis body.Before you diagnose any sickness,Make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart.For the emotions in a man’s moon or sun,Can point to the sickness inAny one of his other parts.Before you treat a man with a condition,Know that not all cures can heal all people.For the chemistry that works on one patient,May not work for the next,Because even medicine has its ownConditions.Before asserting a prognosis on any patient,Always be objective and never subjective.For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life,But then later discovering that he will lose,Will harm him more than by telling himThat he may lose,But then he wins.THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE by Suzy Kassem.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["body","chemistry","conditions","cure","cures","death","diagnose","diagnosis","disease","doctors","examine","healthcare","heart","illness","life","lose","maxims","medical","medicine","mind","moon","patient","philosophy","physician","prescription","prognosis","remedy","science","sickness","soul","story","sun","suzy-kassem","universe","win"],"id":47668,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":105,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}