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“There is no painkiller as effective as love, no anti-depressant as soothing as cheer, no defibrillator as powerful as wisdom.”

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Book:Time to Save Medicine

Source: Time to Save Medicine

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

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Book:Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Source: Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

“As a doctor, you don’t practice medicine, rather you become the medicine yourself.”

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Book:Time to Save Medicine

Source: Time to Save Medicine

“There may be medical tools in your hands to treat the patient, but those hands must be that of a loving, warm and conscientious human being.”

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Book:Time to Save Medicine

Source: Time to Save Medicine

“A family man never makes a good family doctor; he has too many worries of his own.”

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Book:The Little Stranger

Source: The Little Stranger

“MEDICINE means Mercy - Empathy - Dare - Integrity - Care - Ingenuity - Nobility - and Ethics.”

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

“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.”

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Book:Time to Save Medicine

Source: Time to Save Medicine

“A life saved is a family saved.”

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Book:Time to Save Medicine

Source: Time to Save Medicine

“MEDICINE means Mercy – Empathy – Dare – Integrity – Care – Ingenuity – and Ethics.”

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

“The cause of death was always life. Across many years now, he had comforted people he knew would soon die. He hoped his consoling whispers would do them no harm. He hoped too that he could reduce their immediate pain. But he could not carry them around in his head like luggage. He had to examine with all the intensity he could muster, do what he could, avoid harm, and then forget them.”

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Book:North River

Source: North River

“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.”

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

“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.”

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

“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.”

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Book:Time to Save Medicine

Source: Time to Save Medicine

“Medicine is not about the doctors, it is about the patients.”

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

“Now do you want me to give you something that’ll help you, or would you rather move into the outhouse and try to shoe horses there?”

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Book:What Heals the Heart

Source: What Heals the Heart

“Treatment of sickness is a part of Medicine, but it's not the whole of Medicine.”

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

“Look at other countries that have tried to have federally controlled health care. They have poor-quality health care. Our health-care system is the envy of the world because we believe in making sure that the decisions are made by doctors and patients, not by officials in the nation's capital.”

“Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.”

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Author:Ben Goldacre

“Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding reflects social context in very important ways, and so I think psychiatry is better off looking both at biology and at social context and really trying to think of the relationship between these and I think doctors and patients are better off that way.”

“What Republicans want to do is to put doctors and patients and patients' families back in charge of people's health care rather than having pencil pushers of the government or in some insurance office doing that job.”

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Author:Jim Sensenbrenner

“In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.”

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.”

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Author:Andrew Weil

“Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.”

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Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.”

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Author:Michelle Forbes