Cases Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever remain sacred…

— John Eric Erichsen

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art…

— T. S. Eliot

“There is a saying about surgeons, meant as a reproof: "Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." But this seemed to me their strength. Each day…

— Atul Gawande

“A skilled surgeon knows that cuts have to be made in order to operate, but the skilled surgeon also knows that the cuts are…

— Kevlin Henney

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

— Sophocles

“My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you…

— Abraham Verghese

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with…

— Maimonides

We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great…

— Albert Schweitzer

“Real faith, however, is required to endure this necessary but painful developmental process. As things unfold, sometimes in full view, let us be merciful…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Time is the cruelest of physicians, healing All wounds, but always slowly, looping A surgical needle through the mind’s flesh, experiencing Torment again over…

— Justin Wetch

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye…

— Jacob Bronowski