Doe Quote by Milton H. Erickson

“Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“I often urge patients to project themselves into the future and to consider how they can live now so that five years hence they…

— Irvin D. Yalom

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two…

— Hippocrates

“The doctor will be in soon.” And with that, the future I had imagined, the one just about to be realized, the culmination of…

— Paul Kalanithi

Patients know what patients want to know.

— Dave deBronkart

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

“If you treat the future something definite, it makes to understand it in advance and to work to shape it .”

— Peter Thiel

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when…

— Anonymous

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise…

— Jack Kevorkian

“Your past and present will determine your future”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”

— Anonymous