“Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" Our souls do not spell out their troubles.” HeartIdeasSoulBodyTroubleHealthyDoctorsMedicineAvailableConfusionReasoningSpellsAccurateHierarchyMake Me HappyHunchesEpicureanismBody Work Author:Alain de Botton
“My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.” NeedsI CanSidesMy OwnTroubleDoctorsOvercomingLast WordsParalyzed Author:Andrew Johnson
“The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.” Has BeensRealAmericaTroubleDoctorsVictimMedicalSuitsTerrifiedBusinessmanRobotsBureaucratsMalpractice Author:Shana Alexander
“I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.” WantIdeasHappensWantedJobsTurnsStudyTroubleDoctorsNo IdeaGoing To WorkOnce Upon A Time Author:Bill Murray
“It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.” TroubleHealthyDoctorsSickFolksTroublesome Author:Josh Billings
“Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The end result is that addicts still get their opioids without much trouble, while genuine patients often can't find treatment. Those who do must typically be tracked in a database and must schedule frequent, expensive doctor visits for surveillance like urine testing.” StillsWarEndsPainResultsTroubleDrugDoctorsPatientGenuineTreatedExpensiveTreatmentSkepticismSchedulesTestingAddictSurveillanceWar On DrugsEnd ResultsDatabasesOpioidsOften Can Author:Maia Szalavitz
“Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.” PeopleKnowsWayWantUsedStudyTroubleMajorsAreasDoctorsPsychologicalUsed To BeCuriousSymptomsVery Deep Author:James Hillman