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"The very best approach to medicine is, "Well, I see your physical body is sick, what's been bothering you? What are you worried about? What are you angry about? What are you frustrated about?" Because that is what is at the root of all of this. And then say, "Let it go, let it go, let it go." That's the message, and if they could hear you and do that, then they would all be well right away."
"Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery."
"The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine."
"There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all."
"As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues."
"My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine."
"A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less."
"The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse."
"Social ties are the cheapest medicine we have."
"Laughing is medicine for the soul."
"..my music isn't just music- its medicine."
"Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine."
"Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay."
"The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them."
"The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day."
"It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life."
"Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?"
"This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is, when we start breaking down into conservative and liberal, and we've got a bunch of set predispositions, whether it's on gun control, or its' on health care, any attempt to do health care is socialized medicine."
"Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science."
"It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy."
