Belief Quote by Alan Cohen

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

— Norman Cousins

“I've learned a lot about perspective, about appreciating when you're healthy, the things that you have. I decided I was a super healer. I…

— Simon Whitfield

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord…

— Marcia Angell

When I worked with various healers of one kind or another, very often what came up was that there was an "inner" person who…

— Fred Alan Wolf

“The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part…

— Atul Gawande

The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.

— Anonymous

Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego…

— Carl Jung

“A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

“Medicine’s ground state is uncertainty. And wisdom—for both patients and doctors—is defined by how one copes with it. This”

— Atul Gawande

Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's…

— Jerome E. Groopman

“This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen