“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.” ThinkingHumansHeartInterestHuman BeingsKeysFellowsMedicinePatientCuriosityEndeavorPhysiciansLimitlessGood Science Author:Abraham Verghese
“Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.” HumansMeanPhilosophyIndividualAdviceLife PhilosophyConversationFellowsPatientListenersModestEngagingTemperamentBe PatientGiverTherapistsHuman RelationshipsPsychotherapyTalkers Author:Thomas Szasz
“Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.” IfsPersonsCoursesFeltLove IsCuttingWifeParticularSorrowMadnessFellowsPatientEdgesStrangerAlliesSoleMinorsUnendurablePerhaps Love Book:The Story of a Marriage Source: The Story of a Marriage
“No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.” ThinkingMenHelpingWould BeAliveMetsCreaturesDoctorsFellowsPatientNecksNurse Book:Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London
“Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.” IfsHas BeensReasonMightCompanyDesignFieldsDrugProtectDoctorsFellowsNotesPatientHarmDesignerTelling The TruthClientsAdmonitionLicensingDrug Companies Author:Milton Glaser