{"quotes":[{"text":"The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.","author":"Mark Hyman","tags":["health","community","physician "],"id":19149,"author_id":"Mark+Hyman"},{"text":"Jesus Christ, the holy Saviour is the Great Physician of Souls.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["healing","healthy-life","jesus-christ","medicine","physician","souls","wise-words"],"id":46829,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"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"},{"text":"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.","author":"Daniel Nathans","tags":["me","physician","human "],"id":60477,"author_id":"Daniel+Nathans"},{"text":"Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.","author":"Ambrose Bierce","tags":["best","physician","situation "],"id":66723,"author_id":"Ambrose+Bierce"},{"text":"The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.","author":"Abraham Verghese","tags":["physician","care","patient "],"id":73268,"author_id":"Abraham+Verghese"},{"text":"The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.","author":"William Osler","tags":["great","medical","physician "],"id":87833,"author_id":"William+Osler"},{"text":"Love is a chemical reaction,But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science.And though a body cannot exist without a soul,It too cannot be fully understood or defined by science.Love is the most powerful form of energy,But science cannot decipher its elements.Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love,But even the most advanced physicianCannot prescribe it as medicine.INCOMPLETE SCIENCE by Suzy Kassem.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["chemical","chemical-reactions","cures","doctor","doctors","elements","energy","healthcare","illness","incomplete-science","love","medical","medicine","nature","philosophy","philosophy-of-science","physician","physics","poem","poetry","science","soul","spirit","suzy-kassem","treatement","understand","understanding"],"id":103470,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I was temperamentally better suited to a cognitive discipline, to an introspective field—internal medicine, or perhaps psychiatry. The sight of the operating theater made me sweat. The idea of holding a scalpel caused coils to form in my belly. (It still does.) Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.And so I became a surgeon.","author":"Abraham Verghese","tags":["doctor","ethiopia","india","medicine","physician","science","surgeon"],"id":105560,"author_id":"Abraham+Verghese"},{"text":"A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.","author":"Samuel Butler","tags":["power","healing","physician "],"id":111210,"author_id":"Samuel+Butler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}