Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.

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

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

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

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.

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

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

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

I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

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

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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

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

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

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

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.

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.

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

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.

Hospitals are about healing.

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