Medical Insight Quotes

The art of healing comes from nature not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

As a plastic surgeon, I know the skin better than anybody because I see it in all the different layers.

And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores them, to give a fair account of divers Phænomena of severall diseases (as well Feavers and others) which will perhaps be never throughly understood, without an insight into the doctrine of Fermentation.

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

I spoke to friends that have panic attacks, and I spoke to a doctor who has panic attacks, himself. I also did a bit of research into them. It seemed like everyone's version of a panic attack had slightly different physical things. So, I decided to choose my own physical things.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.