Hippocrates
Physician
"The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it"
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Hippocrates
Physician
"Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food."
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"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
Hippocrates
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"If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool."
Hippocrates
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"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm."
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"Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left."
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"Walking is a man's best medicine."
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"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."
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"We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love."
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"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
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"In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance."
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"The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance."
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"There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew."
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"Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race."
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"The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task."
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"Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription."
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"Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well."
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"The best of all medicines is resting and fasting"
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"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it."
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"Love is the only medicine I believe in."
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"Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense"
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"One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices."
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"He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician."
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"Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business."
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"Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance."
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