Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.
That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...
Tag: reason nature mankind danger laziness cowardice competence tutelage pastor physician
Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice".
David StewartTag: science health medicine doctor physician
Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.
John HerseyTag: money wealth doctor physician
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
George EliotTag: humility psychology arrogance physician
The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot providing the only light, elephants stampeding outside while the good doctor recited Cicero and excised part of himself as blithely as if he were cutting for stone on the body of another.
Abraham VergheseTag: doctor physician etymology cutting-for-stone surgeon hippocratic-oath title-meaning
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.
William HarveyTag: physician
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HippocratesTag: science future harm time medicine disease physician antecedents
If I were free, as a physician, to say what I pleased, I would tell every abused person I see that there is an entire world out there that is nothing like the one you’re living. Go discover it.
C. KennedyTag: glbtq abuse-survivors physician healing-the-emotional-self lgbtqia abuse-sexual-abuse abuse-recovery healing-abuse
Feeling sick, sad? Call on the Great Physician. You don't need an appointment; He will see you right away!
Evinda LepinsTag: god christ sick physician ill
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