Florence Nightingale Quotes

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

Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time?

In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting.

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.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

I think what medical training does is it gives you the language, the tools to look up facts. I think medical training gives you a sense of how to approach a problem, how to look at symptoms and go down the list of what it might be.

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

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

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.

At the end of the day, that physician needs to be in the mix telling patients what their habits ought to be and whether or not they should rely on a medicine.