“Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.” PeopleShouldCareUsedHeavenGrowsInterestWonderDoubtAtheismEffectsDoctorsMarkPositive AtheismLawyerSicknessPriestsWrathLawsuit Author:Pierre Bayle
“I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead” KnowsMenBookReadingSecretStudySuccessfulDoubtMagicInspireBirthTrainingDoctorsRaisesPatientGrantedHospitalsOne ManDeniedToo ShortRapidsDoctor WhoBook ReadingSecret To SuccessGood Doctors Author:Axel Munthe
“If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among the latter.” PeopleIfsWould BeCareAgeHalfCasesDoubtHabitThousandHundredDoctorsConstitutionIllnessRecoveryFormerOur TimeLatterDiscretionOther HalfOne Half Author:Petrarch
“The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.” MaySaidFacesDoubtTerribleDoctorsBlindDareProfessionMedicalAlternativesNo DoubtConspiracyShortcomingsMedical ProfessionBlind Trust Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.” CompassionDoubtDiseaseConcernDoctorsMedicineNurse Book:The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace