Goals Quote by Jerome E. Groopman

“He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included…

— Isabel Allende

Physicians need to be good technicians and know how to prescribe, but for healing to occur they also need to incorporate philosophy and spirituality…

— Bernie Siegel

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

— Norman Cousins

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For this," he said, "is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from…

— Plato

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

— Rudolf Virchow

In the field of medicine, if you're sick you need a doctor. A doctor has already studied how to deal with your ailments, and…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“We are urged by Socrates to be temperate, and as healers we can sometimes do the best for our patients by doing the least.…

— Richard Colgan

“In the end, you have to do what's right. There's a higher good, always, to be found. You have to find it, that's all.…

— Mary-Rose MacColl

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a…

— Abraham Verghese

That's the worst of doctors. They are so keen about the body, but they don't study the soul at all.

— Ethel M. Dell