Paracelsus Quotes

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for the G.P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.

People think you go to doctors for their knowledge. You don't go to doctors for their knowledge. You go to doctors for their judgment, their instinct, what to do, how to make the right call.

I think, in picking a doctor, you should focus less on the degree and more on their knowledge, bedside manner, communication, and patients' experiences.

A lot of times you'll go into a doctor's office and want a kind, non-clinical approach from the physician. Doesn't usually happen.

When I opened my solo practice, I made it a priority to put my patients' experience first and foremost. This involves making them feel comfortable, both literally and figuratively.