Avicenna Quotes

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Doctors didn't know what to do with me.

Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

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.

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.

Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me.

Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.

You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.

forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice

Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.

Well, Doctor, I don't have the diagnosis on that. I'll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you.

Attorney General John Ashcroft is in intensive care. He's suffering from a severe case of pancreatitis, which they can't really figure out because he's not really a drinker. They think he might have picked up some type of infection while wiping his ass with the Bill of Rights.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.