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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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"I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon."
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"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."
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"In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease."
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"I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation."
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"Disease is a vital expression of the human organism."
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"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout."
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"Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices."
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"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."
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"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
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"Misery is a communicable disease."
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"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."
Life
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
Experience
"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."
Success
"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
First
"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."
Thought
"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."
Books
"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language."
Art
"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."
Truth
"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
Art
"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."
Life
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