Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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• It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.

  

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• The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

  

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• The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

  

  Plato
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• To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

  

  William J. Mayo
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• The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

  

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• The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

  

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• A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

  

  William Osler
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• Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.

  

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• Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer.

  

  Lord Byron
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• For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

  

  John Calvin
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• What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

  

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• “For patients to claim a right to any procedures they wish is to challenge a conscientious physician’s integrity as a physician.”

  

  Edmund Pellegrino
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• Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

  

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• The German system is way less fair than it is expected to be, and the difference is becoming bigger. The private system, with its privilege to pay doctors and hospitals better, is basically putting the whole system at jeopardy, because many first-class hospitals and first-class physicians are wasting their time on trivial cases of privately insured and are no longer accessible for the difficult cases from the public system, despite [the fact] that the hospitals and also the education of those professionals is paid for by public money.

  

  Karl Lauterbach
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• Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.

  

  William P. Young
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• You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
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• Avocados are one of my weaknesses. Creamy but firm, even plain, they call margaritas, chips, and good times to mind. Fortunately, they are so nutritious that the fat content is pretty much canceled out.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Weaknesses
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• Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

  

  Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Patients
  • Physicians
  • Dispassionate