Disease Quote by William Osler

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

— Hippocrates

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

— Hippocrates

“Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has”

— William Osler

“A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man—he must view the man in his world.”

— Harvey Cushing

“Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.”

— Martha Moody

“But a person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart!”

— Atheneum Books for Young Readers

“This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with'disease'. They…

— Amy Reed

“When you have the means and information to cure a disease and don't . . . you are the disease.”

— Richard Diaz

“Typical of the medical profession,’ said Larry bitterly. ‘They can’t even spot a disease until the patient is twice life size.”

— Gerald Durrell

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease…

— Susanna Kaysen

“doctors don’t think probabilities apply to their patients,”

— Michael Lewis

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling,…

— Maxim Gorky