Ethan Canin Quotes

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 never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

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.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

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

Hospitals are about healing.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

Cancer is a serious subject, one many battle daily.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.