Paracelsus Quotes

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

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

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

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

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

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.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

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.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

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.

In medicine it is … necessary that causes both health and disease should be determined.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Health care has to be delivered as an integrated service across the entire continuum of care. This runs from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis and treatment and recovery and homecare.

One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

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.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

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

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.