Being responsible Quote by Christiane Northrup

A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

— Vincent de Paul

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

— Hippocrates

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

— Anonymous

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…

— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while…

— Aristotle

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.

— Chinese Proverb

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

— Voltaire

A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles…

— Martha Beck

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

— Marcel Proust

“While all of us dread being blamed, we all would wish to be more responsible—that is, to have the ability to respond with awareness…

— Gabor Maté

An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

— Publilius Syrus

“...younger patients, known as 'Acutes' because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed...”

— Ken Kesey