Cystoscopies gastroscopies biopsies. They can do three or four of those and make five or six hundred dollars in a single day but we get nothing when we use our time to understand the lives of our patients.

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Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and...

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and...

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a...

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a...

Laughter is always the best medicine... unless you have diarrhea.

Laughter is always the best medicine... unless you have diarrhea.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of...

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of...

Medicine knows no limits, expecially not its own.

Medicine knows no limits, expecially not its own.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful...

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful...

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is...

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is...

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents

Resist beginnings it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong...

Resist beginnings it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong...

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine...

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine...

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.